Articles
The Red Menace Reconsidered: A Forgotten History of Communist Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1945-1964 BRODWYN FISCHER 1
Mafalda : Middle Class, Everyday Life, and Politics in Argentina, 1964-1973 ISABELLA COSSE 35
"A Mission of Enormous Transcendence": The Cultural Politics of Music during Colombia's Liberal Republic, 1930-1946 CATALINA MUNOZ 77
Book Reviews
colonial Period
Conflict in Colonial Sonora: Indians, Priests, and Settlers, by David Yetman 107
The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco, by Isabel Yaya 109
Negoriared Sttlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism, by Seven A. Wernke 110
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations, by Sidney W. Mintz 112
Identity, Ritual and Power in Colonial Puebla by Frances L.Ramos 114
Finanzas piadosas y redes de negocios: Los mercaderes de la ciudad de Mexico ante la crisis de Nueva Espana 1804-1808 by Guillermina del Valle Pavon 115
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas, by Manuel Barcia 117
Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space by Logan Wagner, Hal Box and Susan Kline Morehead 119
Cuba-Canarias-Sevilla: El estnco espanol del tabaco y Las Antillas(1717-1817) by Santiago de Luxan Melendez, Monteserrat Garate Ojanguren and Jose Manuel Rodriguez Gordillo 120
No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico by Shirley Cushing Flint 123
National Period
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Profirio Diaz by Steven B. Bunker 125
Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico 1920-1960 by Thomas Rath 126
How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums and the Mexican State by Mary K. Coffey 128
How Difficult it is to Be God: Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999 by Carlos Ivan Degregori 130
Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America by Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens 132
Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas by Heidi Moksnes 134
Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship, edited by Idelber Avelar and Christopher Dunn 136
Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life by Andrew Canessa 137
De pelicula! Hollywood y su impacto en Chile, 1910-1950 by Fernando Purcell 139
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Ben Fallaw 141
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia 184201932 by Gary Van Valen 142
International and Comparative
La Colombie et la France: Relations culturelles XIXe-XXe siecles by Margot Andrade 144
Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette 145
Stumbling Its Way through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International by Daniela Spenser 147
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in COntext by Claudia Kedar 149
Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age by Lara Putnam 151
Planet Taco : A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffrey M. Pilcher 153
Making Art Panamerican :Cultural Policy and the Cold War by Claire F.Fox 154
Birds of Empires, Birds of Nation: A History of Science, Economy and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations by Camilo Wuintero Toro 156
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphere by Robert J. Cottrol 158
Mussolini's National Project in Argentina by David Aliano 160
Public: Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo 161
Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen 163
Smugglers, Brothels and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America's Borderlands, edited by Elaine Carey 165