Contributors
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In This Issue
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 571-572 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-89-4-571 [PDF]  

Articles

Paul Ross

Mexico's Superior Health Council and the American Public Health Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public Health, 1887–1910
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 573-602 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-046 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Other Americas: Transnationalism, Scholarship, and the Culture of Poverty in Mexico and the United States
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 603-641 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-047 [Abstract] [PDF]  

María del Carmen Baerga-Santini

History and the Contours of Meaning: The Abjection of Luisa Nevárez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 643-673 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-048 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

   General and Sources

Janine Gasco

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2
Edited by DAVÍD CARRASCO and SCOTT SESSIONS. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xxi, 479 pp. Cloth, $65.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 675-676 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-049 [PDF]  

Carlos Gálvez-Peña

El criollo como voluntad y representación
By SALVADOR BERNABÉU ALBERT. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE / Aranjuez: Ediciones Doce Calles, 2006. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. 175 pp. Cloth.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 677-678 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-050 [PDF]  

Patricia Seed

Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World
By KATHLEEN ANN MYERS. Translations by NINA M. SCOTT. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 324 pp. Cloth, $50.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 678-680 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-051 [PDF]  

Ronald J. Morgan

Treatise on Slavery: Selections from "De instauranda Aethiopum salute."
By ALONSO DE SANDOVAL, S.J. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by NICOLE VON GERMETEN. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008. Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxxii, 206 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 680-681 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-052 [PDF]  

   Colonial Period

Andrés Reséndez

The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
By NICOLÁS WEY GÓMEZ. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiv, 592 pp. Cloth, $39.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 682-683 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-053 [PDF]  

Richard Lee Turits

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
By ALEJANDRO DE LA FUENTE. With the collaboration of CÉSAR GARCÍA DEL PINO and BERNARDO IGLESIAS DELGADO. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 288 pp. Cloth, $80.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 683-685 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-054 [PDF]  

Javier Villa-Flores

Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
By DANIEL CASTRO. Latin America Otherwise. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $74.95. Paper, $21.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 686-687 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-055 [PDF]  

Jonathan Schorsch

All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
By STUART B. SCHWARTZ. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 336 pp. Cloth, $50.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 687-689 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-056 [PDF]  

Margarita Gascón

Misiones en Chile austral: Los Jesuitas en Chiloé, 1608–1768
By RODRIGO MORENO JERIA. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, 2007. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 450 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 689-690 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-057 [PDF]  

Sandra L. Díaz de Zappia

Una caída anunciada: El obispo Torre y los jesuitas del Río de la Plata (1757–1773)
By FERNANDO AGUERRE CORE. Montevideo: Librería Linardi y Risso, 2007. Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes. 397 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 691 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-058 [PDF]  

César N. Caviedes

Ciudad y poder: La construcción material y simbólica del Montevideo colonial (1723–1810)
By EMILIO JOSÉ LUQUE AZCONA. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, 2007. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 356 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 692-693 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-059 [PDF]  

Andrew B. Fisher

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico
By BRIAN P. OWENSBY. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 379 pp. Cloth, $65.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 693-695 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-060 [PDF]  

Ben Vinson, III

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico
By MARÍA ELENA MARTÍNEZ. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 407 pp. Cloth.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 695-697 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-061 [PDF]  

Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell

La música y el Atlántico: Relaciones musicales entre España y Latinoamérica
Edited by MARÍA GEMBERO USTÁRROZ and EMILIO ROS-FÁBREGAS. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2007. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes. 605 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 697-699 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-062 [PDF]  

Susan Deans-Smith

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521–1821
By KELLY DONAHUE-WALLACE. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 276 pp. Paper, $29.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 699-701 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-063 [PDF]  

Adam Rothman

Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas
By MARIANA L. R. DANTAS. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 701-703 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-064 [PDF]  

   National Period

Michael Goebel

La fiesta de la independencia en Costa Rica, 1821–1921
By DAVID DÍAZ ARIAS. San José: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2007. Illustrations. Bibliography. xxxviii, 328 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 703-704 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-065 [PDF]  

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Cayeyanos: Familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey
By FERNANDO PICÓ. San Juan: Ediciones Huracán, 2007. Photographs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. 183 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 704-706 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-066 [PDF]  

Amy Chazkel

Proletários de casaca: Trabalhadores do comércio carioca (1850–1911)
By FABIANE POPINIGIS. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 2007. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 263 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 706-708 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-067 [PDF]  

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Dar a luz en Chile, siglo XIX: De la "ciencia de hembra" a la ciencia obstétrica
By MARÍA SOLEDAD ZÁRATE C. Colección Sociedad y Cultura. Santiago de Chile: Universidad Alberto Hurtado / Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2007. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. 519 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 708-710 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-068 [PDF]  

Karen Robert

Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900–1930
By ADRIANA BERGERO. Translated by RICHARD YOUNG. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 476 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $27.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 710-711 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-069 [PDF]  

Andrew Grant Wood

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
By ALEJANDRO L. MADRID. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Musical Scores. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 210 pp. Cloth, $54.50.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 711-713 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-070 [PDF]  

Iñigo García-Bryce

Una vida agónica: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre: Testimonio de parte
By EUGENIO CHANG-RODRÍGUEZ. Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú, 2007. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 378 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 713-714 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-071 [PDF]  

Mark Thurner

Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present: Essays
By JAMES DUNKERLEY. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2007. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xv, 311 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $30.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 715 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-072 [PDF]  

Brian McBeth

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon
By STEVE ELLNER. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 257. Cloth, $55.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 715-717 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-073 [PDF]  

Stephen E. Lewis

The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century
By SAMUEL BRUNK. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 353 pp. Cloth, $45.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 717-719 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-074 [PDF]  

Douglass Sullivan-González

Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino's Challenge to Christian Theology
Edited by STEPHEN J. POPE. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008. Appendixes. Index. xiii, 282 pp. Paper, $26.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 719-720 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-075 [PDF]  

Sian Lazar

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
By JAMES HOLSTON. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 416 pp. Cloth, $35.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 721-722 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-076 [PDF]  

Lise Sedrez

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society
By KATHRYN HOCHSTETLER and MARGARET E. KECK. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 284 pp. Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 723-724 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-077 [PDF]  

Ueli Hostettler

Yucatán in an Era of Globalization
Edited by ERIC N. BAKLANOFF and EDWARD H. MOSELEY. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. xvi, 192 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 725-726 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-078 [PDF]  

   International and Comparative

Charles R. Cutter

The Comanche Empire
By PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN. Lamar Series in Western History. New Haven: Yale University Press / William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2008. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 500 pp. Cloth, $35.00.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 726-728 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-079 [PDF]  

Alejandra Bronfman

Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures
Edited by LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT and IVETTE ROMERO-CESAREO. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $59.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 728-729 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-080 [PDF]  

Carmen Ramos-Escandón

Los retos de la diferencia: Los actores de la multiculturalidad entre México y Colombia
Edited by ODILE HOFFMANN and MARÍA TERESA RODRÍGUEZ. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2007. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Indexes. 551 pp.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 730 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-081 [PDF]  

José Antonio Sánchez Román

El Fondo Monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina: Liberalismo, populismo y finanzas internacionales
By RAÚL GARCÍA HERAS. Buenos Aires: Lumiere, 2008. Notes. Bibliography. 222 pp. Paper.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 731-732 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-082 [PDF]  

Diego Armus

The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America
By SHAWN SMALLMAN. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Photographs. Illustration. Maps. Notes, Bibliography. Index. xiii, 290 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $22.50.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 732-734 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-083 [PDF]  

Yolanda Chávez Leyva

José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance
Edited by PATRICIA SEED. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. DVD. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 198 pp. Cloth, $34.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 734-735 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-084 [PDF]  

Cary Fraser

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
By AVIVA CHOMSKY. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 398 pp. Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 735-737 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-085 [PDF]  

Paul Vanderwood

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico
By JOHN J. DWYER. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 387 pp. Cloth, $89.95. Paper, $24.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 737-739 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-086 [PDF]  

Walter E. Little

Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean
By EVAN R. WARD. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2008. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $69.95.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 739-740 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-087 [PDF]  

Mark Moberg

The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
By JAMES WILEY. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxv, 278 pp. Cloth.
Hispanic American Historical Review 89(4): 741-742 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00182168-2009-088 [PDF]  

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