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Volume 60 - April 2004

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Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico. By Pamela Voekel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 336. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century. By Amalia Pallares. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2002. Pp. xv, 272. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $44.95 cloth.

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Inter-American Notes

Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961–1972. By Michael D. Gambone. Westport: Praeger, 2001. Pp. 274. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $72.95 cloth; $22.00 paper.

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Crisis, Reforma y Revolución: México: Historias de fin de siglo. Edited by Leticia Reina and Elisa Servín. México, D.F.: Taurus, Conaculta-INAH, 2002. Pp. 483. Notes. No price.

Spanish American Saints and the Rhetoric of Identity, 1600-1800. By Ronald J. Morgan. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002. Pp. x, 238. Illustrations. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $45.00 cloth.

How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 450. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Linking Civil Society and the State: Urban Popular Movements, the Left, and Local Government in Peru, 1980-1992. By Gerd Schönwälder. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 244. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth.

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Ancient Tollan: Tula and the Toltec Heartland. By Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Robert Cobean, and Dan Healy. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002. Pp. xviii, 412. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

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The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico. By Matthew C. Gutmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 289. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

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Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America. By Miguel Angel Centeno. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 329. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Habsburg Peru: Images, Imagination, and Memory. By Peter T. Bradley and David Cahill. Liverpool Latin American Studies, New Series 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. Pp. Xii, 167. Notes. Appendices. Index. $19.95 paper.

Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era. By Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 523. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth.

The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. By María Elena Díaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 440. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Appendices. Works Cited. Index. $49.50 cloth; $24.95 paper.

The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 792. Illustrations. Index. $84.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Commandante Che: Guerilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967. By Paul J. Dosal. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 335. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935. By Christopher R. Boyer. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 320. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. By Stewart R. King. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001. Pp. Xxvi, 328. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America. By Kirk S. Bowman. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 289. Illustrations. References. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle (Fourth Edition). By Thomas W. Walker. Boulder: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 238. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

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