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Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980. Edited by Dawn Ades. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xxii, 365. Illustrations. Notes. Manifesto. Bibliography. Index. $65.00.)

The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History. By José David Saldívar. [Post-Contemporary Interventions.] (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 213. Notes. References. Index. $32.50.)

A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875-1917. By K.O. Laurence. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 648. Tables. Maps. Appendices. Diagram. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Edna Acosta-Belén and Christine E. Bose. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. x, 201. Bibliographies. Indices. $29.50.)

The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia. By Harry Sanabria. [Linking Levels of Analysis Series.] (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 277. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $47.50.)

Shaping the Political Arena. By Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xii, 877. Figures. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Indices. $19.95.)

Where the Boys are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of the New Left. By Van Gosse. [The Haymarket Series.] (New York: Verso, 1993. Pp. xi, 270. Notes. Photographs. Appendix. Index. $18.95.)

Race and Class Struggles in a Colonial State: Trinidad 1917-1945. By Kelvin Singh. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 284. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

“Subject People” and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947. By Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles. [SUNY Series in Society and Culture in Latin America.] (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 304. Tables. Notes. Index. $14.95.)

The Central American Peace Process, 1983-1991: Sheathing Swords, Building Confidence. By Jack Child. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1992. Pp. xiv, 200. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Biliography. Index. No price.)

Dolor y Alegría: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico. By Sarah LeVine. [Life Course Studies.] (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp.xi, 239. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.50.)

The Falkland Islands/Malvinas: The Contest for Empire in the South Atlantic. By Barry Gough. (Atlantic Highlands: The Athlone Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 212. Notes. Sources. Bibliography. Index. $65.00.)

The Political Economy of Argentina: Power and Class Since 1930. By Mónica Peralta-Ramos. [Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean.] (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 191. Tables. Notes. Index. $49.95.)

The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War. Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, and Augusto Varas. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 328. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy. Edited by Hilbourne A. Watson. (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc., 1994. Pp. ix, 261. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

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Resolving the Argentine Paradox: Politics and Development, 1966-1992. By David Erro. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1993. Tables. Figures. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xvii, 254. $38.00.)

Bolivia & Coca: A Study in Dependency. By James Painter. [Studies on the Impact of the Illegal Drug Trade.] (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1994. pp. xiv, 194. Tables. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

At the Fall of Somoza. By Lawrence Pezzullo and Ralph Pezzullo. [Pitt Latin American Series.] (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. pp. xiv, 303. Map. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Index. $34.95.)

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