Articles

The "Little Doctrine" and Indigenous Catechesis in New Spain LOUISE M. BURKHART 167

Law of the Land/ Hacienda Power and the Challenge of Republicanism in Postindependence Mexico TIMO SCHAEFER 207

Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908-1935 DOUG YARRINGTON 237

From the Depths of Patagonia: The Ushuaia Penal Colony and the Nature of "The End of the World" RYAN EDWARDS 271

Book Reviews

General and Sources

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssery of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 303

The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson 306

Writing Mexican History by Eric Van Young 307

Debates republicanos en Chile: Siglo XIX vol.I edited by Ana Maria Stuven and Gabriel Cid 310

Colobial Period

Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World by Ian Farrington 311

Angels, Demons and the New World edited by Fernando Cervantes and Andrew Redden 313

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World edited by Jason McCloskey and Ignacio Lopez Alemany 315

The Comedia of Virginity: Mary and the Politics of Seventeenth Century Spanish Theater by Mirzam C. Perez 316

Pintura de los reinos: Identidades compartidas en el mundo hispanico : Miradas varias siglos XVI-XIX edited by Rafael Dobado Gonzalez and Andres Calderon Fernandez 318

Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the Creole Archieve of Colonial Mexico 320

National Period

Celebrating Insurrection: The Commemoration and Representation of the 19th Mexican Pronunciamiento, edited by Will Fowler 322

Revoltas, motins, revolucoes: Homens livres pobres e libertos no Brasil do seculo XIX edited by Monica Duarte Dantas 323

Poder y gobierno local en Mexico, 1808-1857 edited by Maria del Carmen Salinas Sandoval 325

The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile by Patience A.Schell 327

Icones litteraires et stereorypes sociaux: L'image des immigrants galiciens en Argentine(1800-1960) by Xose M. Nunez Seizas 329

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil by Marc A. Hertzman 330

Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America edited by Jessica Stites Mor 332

The New Jewish Argentina : Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone, edited by Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein 333

Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequiality by Esteban Morales Dominguez 335

Grupo Antillano: The Art of Afro-Cuba edited by Alejandro de la Fruente 337

Song and Social Change in Latin America edited by Lauren Shaw 338

Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture 1940-2005: Of Border Gaurds, Nomads and Women by Deborah Martin 340

Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State, edited by John P. Hawkins 341

From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia by Derrick Hindery 343

De victimas a ciudadanos: Memorias de la violencia politica en comunidades de la Cuenca del Rio Pampas by Equipo Peruano de Antropologia Forense and Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru by Kimberly Theidon 345

International and Comparative

Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecologial History, by Gregory T. Cushman 348

La indianizacion: Cautivos, renegados" bommes libres" y misioneros en los confines americanos s. XVI-XIX, edited by Salvador Bernabeu 349

The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue, by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R Sadler 351

British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba 1898-1964 by Christopher Hull 353