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Volume 58 - January 2002

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Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. By John Lear. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 441. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910. By Enrique C. Ochoa. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000. Pp. xiii, 267. Notes. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616: Militarism, Evangelism, and Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century Nueva Vizcaya. By Charlotte M. Gradie. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000. Pp. x, 238. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00 cloth.

State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900. By Fernando López-Alves. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 295. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Historia del Banco de México: Volumen 2, 1940-1946. By Eduardo Turrent Díaz. Mexico City: Banco de Mexico, 2001. Pp. 419. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. $35.00 paper.

Daily Life in Colonial Mexico: The Journey of Friar Ilarione da Bergamo, 1761–1768. Translated by William J. Orr. Edited by Robert R. Miller and William J. Orr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. x, 240. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 cloth.

Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America, Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland. By Camilla Townsend. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. 320. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. By Stephen R. Niblo. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Pp. xxv, 408. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996. By Elisabeth J. Friedman. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 324. Notes. Index. $55.00 cloth; $22.50 paper.

After “The Year Eighty”: The Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico. By Jim Norris. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Pp. x, 212. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Desde afuera y desde adentro: Ensayos de etnografía e historia del Cuzco y Apurimac. Edited by Luis Millones, Hiroyasu Tomoeda, and Tatsuhiko Fujii. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2000. Pp. 381. Illustrations. Bibliography. No Price.

Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima. By Christine Hünefeldt. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 388. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898. By Joan Casanovas. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 320. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. By Robert M. Buffington. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 239. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographic Essay. Index. $50.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.

The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru. By José R. Deustua. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000. Pp. xvi, 290. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $28.00 paper.

Sentimientos y vida familiar en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, siglo xviii. By Pablo Rodríguez. Bogotá: Editorial Ariel, 1997. Pp. 339. Appendix. Sources. Bibliography. No price.

Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos. By Michael R. Hall. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 163. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Vicios públicos, virtudes privadas: La corrupción en México. Edited by Claudio Lomnitz. Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones, 2000. Pp. 291. Notes. $13.00 paper.

Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gómez Years, 1889-1965. By James D. Henderson. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 508. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society. By Frank Safford and Marco Palacios. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 404. Bibliography. Maps. Tables. Index. $24.95 paper.

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