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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 47 - January 1991

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Shattered Hope: Guatemalan Workers and the Promise of Democracy. By James A. Goldston. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 277. Notes. Index. $22.50.)

Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860. By Mark D. Szuchman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 307. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.50.)

Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth Century Brazil. By Richard Graham. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 382. Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $39.50.)

Carlos Pellegrini and the Crisis of the Argentine Elites, 1880-1916. By Douglas W. Richmond. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $39.95.)

Argentine Unions, the State, and the Rise of Perón, 1930-1945. By Joel Horowitz. (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1990. Pp. xi, 284. Tables. Notes. Abbreviations. Index. $16.95).

Restructuring Domination: Industrialists and the State in Ecuador. By Catherine M. Conaghan. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 197. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

The World Sugar Economy in War and Depression, 1914-1940. Edited by Bill Albert and Adrian Graves. (New York: Routeledge, Chapman & Hall, Inc., 1988. Pp. 241. Tables. Graphs. References. $55.00.)

In Pursuit of Honor and Power: Noblemen of the Southern Cross in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Eul-Soo Pang. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 341. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Glossary. Maps. $41.95.)

Democratizing Brazil. Edited by Alfred Stepan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.xvii, 404. Tables. Notes. Index. $14.95.)

U.S. Policy toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917-1929. By Michael L. Krenn. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1990. Pp. xxi, 169. Bibliography, Index. Notes. $35.00.)

Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment since 1700. By Alex Dupuy. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 245. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

Mexican Labor and World War II. Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947. By Erasmo Gamboa. (Austin: The University of Texas Press. Pp. xiv, 178. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.00.)

The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution. By Jules R. Benjamin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 235. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918. By Louis A. PérezJr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 267. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

Marxism and Democracy in Chile. From 1932 to the Fall of Allende. By Julio Faúndez. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 305. Notes. Index. $25.00.)

Revolution and Reaction: Bolivia 1964-1985. By James M. Malloy and Eduardo Gamarra. (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988. Pp. 256. Appendices. Index. $29.95.)

Britain and Latin America: A Changing Relationship. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 240. Preface. Tables. Maps. Notes. Index. No price.)

Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800. By Serge Gruzinski. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. 223. Notes. Glossary. Maps. Index. $32.50.)

Michael Manley: The Making of a Leader. By Darrell E. Levi. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. Pp. 349. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Photos. Appendix. Index. $29.95.)

Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru. [Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology 15.]. By Florence E. Babb. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 245. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Tables. $25.00, cloth; $11.95, paper.)

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