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Laboring above Ground: Indigenous Women in New Spain's Silver Mining District, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1602-1770 / DANA VELASCO MURILLO /p3

Outof Tlatelolco's Ruins: Patronage, Devotion, and Natural Disaster at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, 1745-1781 / PAUL RAMIREZ WILLIAM and B. TAYLOR/ p33

Lay Patronage and the Development of Ecclesiastical Property in Spanish America: The Case of Buenos Aires, 1700-1900 / ROBERTO DI STEFANO/ p67

Obituary

Sabine MacCormack (1841-2012) / EDWARD BEATTY and KAREN GRAUBART/ p99

Book Reviews

General and Sources

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution / Sherry Johnson, reviwed by Gregory T. Cushman /p103

The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach / Joseph C. Miller, reviewed by Franklin W. Knight/ p105

History's Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography / Mark Thurnerner, reviewed by David Garret/ p106

Colonial Period

The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nabua Culture / Pete Sigal, reviewed by Rocio Cortés /p108

Deviant and Useful Cirizens: The cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth Century Peru / Mariselle Meléndez, reviewed by Gertrude M. Yeager/ p109

Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes / Joanne Rappapaort and Tom Cummins, reviewed by Carol Damian/ p111

La majestad de los pueblos en la Nueva Granada y Venezuela, 1780-1832 / María Teresa Calderon and Clement Thibaud, reviewed by Alejandro E. Gómez

Línterdépendance argentine entre cités et nation (1808-1821) / Genevieve Verdo; and Ayuntamientos y liberalismo gaditano en México, edited by Juan Ortiz Escamilla and José Antonio Serrano Ortega, reviewed by Jordana Dym/ p115

Conflictos, negociaciones y comercio durante las guerras de independencia latinoamericanas / Raúl O.Fradkin, reviewed by Frank Safford/ p117

"Nosotros somos ahora los verdaderos españoles": La transición de la Nueva España de un reino de la monarquía españolaa la República Federal Mexicana, 1808 -1824 / Jaime E. Rodríguez O., reviewed by Michael T. Ducey/ p119

People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro / Mariza de Carvalho Soares, translated by Jerry D. Metz, reviewed by Nicole von Germeten /p 120

National Period

Los actores locales de la nación en la América Latina: Análisis estratégicos / edited by Evelyne Sanchez, reviewed by Christoph Rosenmuller/ p122

The vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil / Stanley E. Blake, reviewed by Judy Bieber /p124

A política da escravidao no Império do Brasil, 1826-1865 / Tamis Parron, reviewed by Oscar de la Torre/p125

Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 / Martha S. Santos, reviewed by Andrew J. Kirkendal/l p127

Fábrica de contos: Ciencia e literatura em Machado de Assis / Daniela Magalhaes da Silveira, reviewed by Amy Caldwell de Farias/ p129

"I sweat the Flavor of Tin": Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia / Robert L. Smale, reviewed by Frederic Vallvé /p 130

Contents

Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900 / Joshua M. Rosenthal, reviewed by Maurice P. Brundgardt/ p132

City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito / Ernesto Capello, reviewed by A. Kim Clark /p133

The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity /Jaime Javier Rodríguez, reviewed by William H-. Beezley/p136

Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico /Matthew D. Esposito, reviewed by Christina Bueno /p138

The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiagao de Chile, 1818-1851 / James A. Wood, reviewed by Ana María Stuven /p140

Las reinas de Estado: Consumo, grandes tiendas y mujeres en la modernización del comercio de Santiago (1880-1930) / Jacqueline Dussaillant Christie, reviewed by Arnold Bauer /p142

Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence / edited by Michael J. Lazzara, reviewed by Gregory Weeks/ p143

From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine, reviewed by Darryl E. Brock/ p145

Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History / Michael Goebel, reviewed by Jorge Nállim /p146

Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the ARgentine Left since 1968 / Jessica Stites Mor, reviewed by David William Foster p148

Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America / Robert Brenneman, reviewed by Thomas L. Pearcy p150

Missing Mila, Finding Family: An international Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War / Margaret E. Ward, reviewed by Laura Briggs/ p151

Sociabilidad y cultura del ocio: Las élites babaneras y sus clubes de recreo (1902-1930) / Maikel Fariñas Borrego, reviewed by José O. Solá /p153

Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood, reviewed by Micol Seigel /p155

International and Comparative

Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico border / edited by Alejandro L. Madrid, reviewed by Andrew Grant Wood /p157

Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics / Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, reviewed by Matthew Casey /p158

Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba / Jonathan Curry-Machado, reviewed by Dan Rood p160

British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919 / Paul Garner, reviewed by Myrna Santiago/ p162

The Illusion of Ignorance: Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920 / Janice Lee Jayes, reviewed by Kenneth J. Grieb p164

Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imagrinaries / Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, reviewed by Jason Oliver Chang p 165

A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War / edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph, reviewed by Michel Gobat /p 167