November 2005

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

Articles
The Cuiloni, the Patlache, and the Abominable Sin: Homosexualities in Early Colonial Nahua Society, by Pete Sigal

Poverty and the Politics of Colonialism: “Poor Spaniards,” Their Petitions, and the Erosion of Privilege in Late Colonial Quito, by Cynthia E. Milton

Liberalism and Married Women’s Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, by Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León

Book Reviews

General

Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Culture, by Maureen Warner-Lewis, reviewed by Sidney W. Mintz

La desintegración de la economía colonial: Comercio y moneda en el interior del espacio colonial (1800–1860), edited by María Alejandra Irigoin and Roberto Schmit, reviewed by Ricardo D. Salvatore

Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, edited by Diego Armus, reviewed by Ronn Pineo

Latin America in Transition: The Influence of Culture on Ecology, Power, and Diversity, by Sheldon Smith, reviewed by Shelton H. Davis

Von Müttern und Machos: Eine Geschichte der Frauen Lateinamerikas, by Barbara Potthast, reviewed by Corinne A. Pernet

The History of Cuba, by Clifford L. Staten, reviewed by Ada Ferrer

Background
Nahuatl Theater, vol. 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico, edited by Barry Sell and Louise M. Burkhart. reviewed by Frances Karttunen

Quetzalcóatl y los mitos fundadores de Mesoamérica, by Enrique Florescano, reviewed by D. A. Brading

Hernán Cortés: Cartas y memoriales, edited by María del Carmen Martínez Martínez, reviewed by Bernard Grunberg

Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II, by Stafford Poole, reviewed by Stanley J. Stein

Colonial Period

The Gold and Silver of Spanish America, c. 1572–1648; Tables Showing Bullion Declared for Taxation in Colonial Treasuries, Remittances to Spain, and Expenditures for Defense of Empire, by Engel Sluiter, reviewed by John Jay Tepaske

Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico, by Laura A. Lewis, reviewed by Susan Schroeder

Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias, by Margaret M. Olsen, reviewed by Nicholas P. Cushner

Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World, by Irene Silverblatt, reviewed by Tamar Herzog

National Period

Historia de los seguros en Puerto Rico, 1898–2002, by Luis A. Ferrao, reviewed by Hugo Maureira

Afroméxico. El pulso de la población negra en México: Un historia recordada, olvidada y vuelta a recorder, by Ben Vinson III and Bobby Vaughn, reviewed by Patrick J. Carroll

El establecimiento del federalismo en México (1821–1827), edited by Josefina Zoraida Vázquez, reviewed by Linda Arnold

Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, 2nd ed, by William H. Beezley, reviewed by David G. LaFrance

Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950, by Michael Snodgrass, reviewed by Kenneth F. Maffitt

Catarino Gaza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, by Elliott Young, reviewed by Paul J. Vanderwood

Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico, by Alexander S. Dawson, reviewed by Ben Fallaw

To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico by Shannan L. Mattiace, reviewed by George Collier

Las relaciones étnicas en Guatemala, 1944–2000, by Richard Adams and Santiago Bastos, reviewed by Luis F. Calero

As noites do Ginásio: Teatro e tensões culturais na Corte (1832–1868), by Silvia Cristina Martins de Souza, reviewed by Kirsten Schulz

Algazarra nas ruas: Comemorações da Independência na Bahia (1889–1923), by Wlamyra Ribeiro de Albuquerque, reviewed by Patricia Acerbi

Influenza, a medicina enferma: Ciência e práticas de cura na época da gripe espanhola em São Paulo, by Liane Maria Bertucci, reviewed by Tamera Marko

Misioneros y civilizadores: Protestantismo y modernización en el Perú (1915–1930), by Juan Fonseca Ariza, reviewed by Virginia Garrard-Burnett

The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons, by Paul B. Trawick, reviewed by Jeanette E. Sherbondy

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, by Luis Alberto Romero, reviewed by Mariano Plotkin

International and Comparative

The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence: Education and Knowledge Transmission in Transcontinental Perspective, by Eugenia Roldán Vera, reviewed by William G. Acree Jr.

Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift, by Thomas E. Chávez, reviewed by Allan J. Kuethe

The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War, by Jorma Ahvenainen, reviewed by Andrés Regalsky

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, by Greg Grandin, reviewed by Jim Handy

Call for Proposals
Index