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Books Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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Anthropology

Nicolas Ellison and Mónica Martínez Mauri (coord.), Paisajes, espacios y territorios (Quito: Abya-Yala, 2009), pp. 227, pb.

Business and Economics

Pablo Toral, Multinational Enterprises in Latin America since the 1990s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xxiii+238, £52.00, hb.

Cultural Studies

Gisela Heffes, Las ciudades imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana (Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2009), pp. 283, pb.

History

Ana Lucia Araujo (ed.), Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011), pp. xvi+456, $129.99, hb.

Andrey A. Isserov, The United States and the Latin American Struggle for Independence, 1815–1830 (Moscow: Dimitriy Pozharskiy University Press, 2011), pp. 458, hb.

Susan Schroeder (ed.), The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011), pp. xiii+273, £25.00; $39.95, pb.

Politics

Benjamin Goldfrank, Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011), pp. xii+299, $74.95, hb.

Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros (eds.), Reclaiming the Nation: The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America (London: Pluto, 2011), pp. x+350, £24.99, pb.

Religion

Edward L. Cleary, The Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Latin America (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), pp. xii+308, $74.95, hb.

ARGENTINA

Flavia Fiorucci, Intelectuales y Peronismo, 1945–1955 (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2011), pp. 226, pb.

Jill Hedges, Argentina: A Modern History (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011), pp. xvii+317, £29.50, hb.

Lyman L. Johnson, Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776–1810 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. xiv+410, £71.00, £16.99 pb.

BRAZIL

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller and Marcelo K. Silva, Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. xvi+204, $65.00, $21.95 pb.

Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. xvii+346, £67.00, £16.99 pb.

Larissa Rosa Corrêa, A tessitura dos direitos: patrões e empregados na Justiça do Trabalho, 1953–1964 (São Paulo: LTR Editora, FAPESP, 2011), pp. 231, pb.

David William Foster, São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), pp. vii+197, $69.95, hb.

Timothy J. Power and Matthew M. Taylor (eds.), Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), pp. xii+315, $38.00, pb.

Ori Preuss, Bridging the Island: Brazilians’ Views of Spanish America and Themselves, 1865–1912 (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2011), pp. 237, pb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Luis Roniger, Transnational Politics in Central America (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), pp. xiv+217, $74.95, hb.

CHILE

Brenda Elsey, Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011), pp. ix+315, $55.00, hb.

James A. Wood, The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818–1851 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. x+333, $29.95, pb.

COLOMBIA

Garry Leech, The FARC: The Longest Insurgency (London and New York: Zed, 2011), pp. xii+178, £12.99; $19.95, pb.

The FARC Files: Venezuela, Ecuador and the Secret Archive of ‘Raúl Reyes’ (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2011), pp. 240, pb.

CUBA

Jonathan Curry-Machado, Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xiv+264, £55.00, hb.

ECUADOR

Chad Thomas Black, The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765–1830 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. xii+254, $29.95, pb.

Erynn Masi de Casanova, Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011), pp. xix+239, $55.00, hb.

MEXICO

Todd Eisenstadt, Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xv+208, £55.00; $82.00, hb.

David Scott Fitzgerald, Rafael Alarcón and Leah Muse-Orlinoff (eds.), Recession without Borders: Mexican Migrants Confront the Economic Downturn (San Diego, CA: University of California, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2011), pp. 152, pb.

Paul Gillingham, Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. 338, $28.95, pb.

George W. Grayson, Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction, 2010), pp. xiv+349, $34.95, hb.

Silke Hensel (coord.), Constitución, poder y representación: Dimensiones simbólicas del cambio político en la época de la independencia mexicana (Madrid: Iberoamericana–Vervuert/Bonilla Artigas, 2011), pp. 462, pb.

Jesse Lerner, The Maya of Modernism: Art, Architecture, and Film (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. x+214, $45.00, hb.

Heather McCrea, Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. xiv+288, $27.95, pb.

Rachel A. Moore, Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011), pp. xiii+230, $49.95, hb.

William B. Taylor, Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico before the Reforma (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. xv+288, $37.95, hb.

Dolores Trevizo, Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000 (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011), pp. xviii+245, $64.95, hb.

Nancy Vogeley and Manuel Ramos Medina (coord.), Historia de la literatura mexicana, vol. 3: Cambios de reglas, mentalidades y recursos retóricos en la Nueva España del siglo XVIII (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 2011), pp. 649, pb.

PERU

Stephanie L. McNulty, Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. xii+211, $65.00, $21.95 pb.