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Volume 51 - April 1995

Book Reviews

Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba. By Linda Fuller. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 274.)

Revolution in the Balance: Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba. By Debra Evenson. Latin American Perspectives Series, No. 14 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 235. Notes. Index. $65.00.)

Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country. By José Luis González. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. 135. Glossary. $12.95.)

Colonial Dilemma: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico. Edited by Edwin Meléndez and Edgardo Meléndez. (Boston: South End Press, 1993. Pp. 255, Tables. Notes. Index. $40.00.)

Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba. By Robert M. Levine. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. Pp. xvii, 398. Photographs. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.)

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Index to Volume LI: July, 1994 through April, 1995

TAM volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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The California-Mexico Connection. Edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal and Katrina Burgess. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi, 364. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Index. $45.00.)

Religion and Society in Post-Emancipation Jamaica. By Robert J. Stewart. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Pp. xxi, 254. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $19.95.)

La coexistence des types religieux différents dans l' Haïtien contemporain. By Lamartine Petit-Monsieur. [Supplementa, Vol. 39.] (Immensee: Neue Zeitschrift fur Missionswissenschaft, 1992. Pp. xxxvi, 391. Maps. Table. Figures. Photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Index. No price.)

Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use. Edited by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch. [Biological Resource Management in the Tropics.] (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 475. Tables. Figures. Index. $45.00.)

Indice General del Archivo del Extinguido Juzgado Privativo de Tierras Depositado en la Escribanía de Cámara del Supremo Gobierno de la República, part two. Edited by Gustavo Palma Murga. (México: Centra de Investigaciones, 1991. Pp. 504. $10.00.)

Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-century City. By Thomas H. Holloway. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Pp. xix, 369. Tables. Figures. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

Nahuatl to Rayuela: The Latin American Collection at Texas. Edited by Dave Oliphant. (Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, 1992. Pp. 155. Illustrations. Index. $15.00.)

Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930. By Nils Jacobsen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 481. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $55.00)

El nacionalismo en México. Edited by Cecilia Noriega Elio. [VIII Coloquio de Antropología e historia regionales.] (Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán, 1992. Pp. 770. No price.)

Marxism and Communism in Twentieth-Century Mexico. By Barry Carr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 437. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.50.)

The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration. Edited by Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi. (London: I.B. Tauris for the Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1992. Pp. 57. Illustrations. L45.)

Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present: An Anthology. Edited by Michael Löwy and translated by Michael Pearlman. [Revolutionary Studies.] (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, 1992. Pp. lxix, 296. Notes. Abbreviations. Glossary. Index. $49.95.)

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