Articles

The Limits of Judicial Independence: A Model with Illustration from Venezuela under Chávez MATTHEW M. TAYLOR  pp 229-259 

Contradictions of Green Development: Human Rights and Environmental Norms in Light of Belo Monte Dam Activism EVE Z. BRATMAN  pp 261-289 

Neither So Low nor So Short: Wages and Heights in Bourbon Spanish America from an International Comparative Perspective RAFAEL DOBADO-GONZÁLEZ and HÉCTOR GARCÍA-MONTERO  pp 291-321

The Alliance For or Against Progress? US–Brazilian Financial Relations in the Early 1960s FELIPE PEREIRA LOUREIRO  pp 323-351 

Pages from a Yellow Press: Print Culture, Public Life and Political Genealogies in Modern Brazil JAMES P. WOODARD  pp 353-379  

Book Reviews

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Cuba en la era de Raúl Castro: reformas económico-sociales y sus efectos  pp 381-382 

Edward L. Cleary, The Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Latin America  pp 383-384

Neil A. Burron, The New Democracy Wars: The Politics of North American Democracy Promotion in the Americas pp 384-386 

Fernanda Beigel (ed.), The Politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America  pp 386-388 

Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America  pp 388-390 

Tina Hilgers (ed.), Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics  pp 390-392 

 Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil  pp 392-393 

Jason Seawright, Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela  pp 393-395 

Carlos Iván Degregori, How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999  pp 395-397 

Peter V. N. Henderson, The Course of Andean History  pp 397-399 

Jill Michelle DeTemple, Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador  pp 399-400

A. Kim Clark, Gender, State and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895–1950  pp 401-402 

Patience A. Schell, The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile  pp 402-404 

Joy Logan, Aconcagua: The Invention of Mountaineering on America's Highest Peak  pp 404-406 

Natalia Milanesio, Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture  pp 406-408 

Marina A. Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina  pp 408-410 

John Mraz, Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons  pp 410-411 

Trevor Stack, Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship  pp 412-413 

Catherine A. Nolan-Ferrell, Constructing Citizenship: Transnational Workers and Revolution on the Mexico-Guatemala Border, 1880–1950  pp 413-415 

Heather Fowler-Salamini, Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution: The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz  pp 415-417

William J. Suarez-Potts, The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875–1931  pp 417-419 

Thomas Rath, Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1960  pp 419-421 

Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole and Ben Vinson (eds.), Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora pp 421-423 

Manuel Barcia, The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas  pp 423-425

Jaime E. Rodríguez O., ‘We Are Now the True Spaniards’: Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xx+497, £62.95, hb. WILL FOWLER Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 46, Issue 02, May 2014, pp 425-427 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X14000595, Published online by Cambridge University Press 29 Apr 2014

Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.), Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s  pp 427-428 

José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Ausentes del universo: reflexiones sobre el pensamiento político hispanoamericano en la era de la construcción nacional, 1821–1850 pp 429-430 

Anna H. More, Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico  pp 430-431 

Steven A. Wernke, Negotiated Settlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism  pp 432-434