81:2

May 2001

Published in cooperation with the
Conference on Latin American History
of the American Historical Association



Articles

Republican Friendship: The Life and Letters of Manuela Sáenz in Exile, 1835-1856, by Sarah C. Chambers

Party Formation and State-Making: The Conservative Party and the Reconstruction of the Brazilian State, by Jeffrey D. Needell

A "visão do sertão": Party Identity and Political honor in Late-Imperial Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Judy Bieber


Book Reviews

Feature

Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, edited by Davíd Carrasco et al., reviewed by Rex Koontz

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 2: Mesoamerica, part 2., edited by Richard E. Adams and Murdo J. Macleod, reviewed by Matthew Restall

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 3 vols., by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, reviewed by Patricia Galloway


General

Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, 1896-1958, by Félix D. Almaraz Jr., reviewed by Matt S. Meier

Philip III and Pax Hispanica, 1591-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy, by Paul C. Allen, reviewed by Antonio Feros

Lógica mestiza en América, edited by Guillaume Boccara and Sylvia Galindo, reviewed by Robert H. Jackson


Colonial Period

Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America, by Robert H. Jackson, reviewed by Aaron P. Althouse

The Women of Colonial Latin America, by Susan Migden Socolow, reviewed by Muriel Nazzari

The Wars of Independence in Spanish America, edited by Christon I. Archer, reviewed by Peter Blanchard

Sahagún and the Transition to Modernity, by Walden Browne, reviewed by Max Harris

El águila y la cruz: orígenes religiosos de la conciencia criolla, México, siglos XVI-XVII, by Solange Alberro, reviewed by Stafford Poole

Empire of Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803, compiled and edited by Thomas E. Sheridan, reviewed by Susan M. Deeds

Grandeur et misère de l'office: Les officiers de finances de Nouvelle-Espagne XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, by Michel Bertrand, reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder

Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico, by Bernardino Verástique, reviewed by Charlotte M. Gradie

A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun, edited and translated by Kathleen A. Myers and Amanda Powell, reviewed by Kristine Ibsen

Ensayo politico sobre la Isla de Cuba: Alejandro de Humboldt, introduced and edited by Miguel Angel Puig-Samper, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, and Armando Garcia Gonzalez, reviewed by Allan J. Kuethe

Esclavos, patriotas y poetas a la sombra de la cruz: Cinco ensayos sobre catolicismo e historia cubana, by Manuel P. Maza Miquel, S. J., reviewed by Margaret E. Crahan

The Last Conquistador: Mansio Serra de Leguizamón and the Conquest of the Incas, by Stuart Stirling, reviewed by Jeremy Mumford

El tapaboca, by José Amor y Vázquez, reviewed by Julie Greer Johnson

Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810-1825, by Rebecca A. Earle, reviewed by Brian R. Hamnett

Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber, by Shawn William Miller, reviewed by Dauril Alden

História de um país inexistente: O Pantanal entre os séculos XVI e XVIII, by Maria de Fátima Costa, reviewed by Erik Lars Myrup

Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais, by Kathleen J. Higgins, reviewed by Elizabeth Kuznesof


National Period

Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America, by Nina Gerassi-Navarro, reviewed by Charles W. Macune Jr.

The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey, by Grenville Goodwin and Neil Goodwin, reviewed by Shelley B. Hatfield

La moneda en México, 1750-1920, edited by José Antonio Bátiz Vázquez and José Enrique Covarrubias, reviewed by Marie Francois

Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico, by Robert M. Buffington, reviewed by Lila Caimari

Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers, edited by Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel, reviewed by Andrew G. Wood

El primer programa bracero y el gobierno de México, 1917-1918, by Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso, reviewed by Gregory S. Crider

La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History, by Thomas Benjamin, reviewed by Rick A. López

The Color of Silver: William Spratling, His Life and Art, by Taylor D. Littleton; and The Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco, by Joan Mark, reviewed by Helen Delpar

Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba, by Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López, reviewed by Nikolas Kozloff

Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920, by Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, reviewed by Teresita Martínez Vergne

Política, identidad y pensamiento social en la República Dominicana (Siglos XIX y XX), edited by Raymundo González et al., reviewed by Teresita Martínez-Vergne

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960, by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, reviewed by Mary Roldán

Honorable Lives. Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850, by Victor M. Uribe-Uran, reviewed by J. León Helguera

Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991, by Marisol de la Cadena, reviewed by Enrique Mayer

Nature and Culture in the Andes, by Daniel W. Gade, reviewed by Joan Martínez-Alier

Searching for a Better Society: The Peruvian Economy from 1950, by John Sheahan, reviewed by Albert Berry

Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911, by Robin L. Anderson, reviewed by Michael Edward Stanfield

The Indians and Brazil, 3d ed., by Mercio P. Gomes, translated by John W. Moon, reviewed by David McCreery

The Muffled Cries: The Writer and Literature in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985, by Nancy T. Baden, reviewed by Idelber Avelar

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889, by Judy Bieber, reviewed by Jeffrey C. Mosher

A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and the Alternative Spaces of Blackness, by Rachel E. Harding, reviewed by Hendrik Kraay

Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil, by Peter Fryer, reviewed by Patricia Pinho


International and Comparative

Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies, by Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott, reviewed by O. Nigel Bolland

The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival: Studies in Nineteenth Century Europe and Latin America, edited by Austen Ivereigh, reviewed by Hubert J. Miller

Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America, by Camilla Townsend, reviewed by Paul Gootenberg

Regiones europeas y Latinoamérica (siglos XVIII y XIX), edited by Michael Zeuske and Ulrike Schmieder, reviewed by Stephen Webre

Enigma de la Laguna del Desierto: Una memoria diplomática, by Mario Valenzuela Lafourcade, reviewed by William F. Sater

The US-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century, by David E. Lorey, reviewed by Elliott Young

The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism, by G. Pope Atkins and Larman Wilson, reviewed by Rosario Espinal

Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership, by Kenneth D. Lehman, reviewed by Jon V. Kofas