... a sample of the impressive historical scholarship in Spain during the past quarter-century. The editors (appropriately, historians from England and Spain) have chosen 13 works covering a wide variety of topics relating to Spain’s seventeenth-century crisis (often called a depression). Subject matter...

... of the novel in nation-building processes, Toner examines a wide range of Mexican novels over the first century of the republican period. Though many arguments about the role of alcohol emerge from this analysis, there is a general effort here to challenge the view, forwarded originally by Doris Sommer...

...Mark Lentz Abstract Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters...

... provided a groundbreaking social-historical portrait of landless laborers in the countryside, rural towns, and cities, and addressed the role of women in nineteenth-century rural economy, society, and culture. 8 The last chapter of Labradores, peones, y proletarios on “el peonaje feminino,” one...

... that recipients of charity saw it as a right, see the essays in Peter Mandler, ed., The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990). 44 Tomy Romeo, interviews by author, Santiago, 4 June 1993 and 28 July 1999. Copyright...

...Amy Chazkel Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine . By Peard Julyan G. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 315 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Jordana Dym Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia . By Appelbaum Nancy P. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 304 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2017...

...Chloe Ireton Abstract Hundreds of Castilian free black men and women obtained royal travel licenses to cross the Atlantic in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as black Old Christians. They settled across the Spanish Indies and developed trades as artisans, traders, sailors, healers...

... the framework of the transnational history of nation making, with a specific emphasis on female education and the early women's movement. Such nation making is presented via the two main political models prevalent in North and South America in the second half of the nineteenth century: Manifest Destiny...

... on nineteenth-century Spanish American culture. The overview of the continent reveals, of course, wide differences and contrasts among nations, but the author also identifies patterns of “cultural continuity” that justify projects of synthesis like this one (pp. 13–14). Among those patterns he points out...

... classic critique of nineteenth-century Brazil, according to which an antiquated structure of colonialism and slavery persisted in an advanced superstructure of European liberalism, Cribelli argues that Brazil's modernizers did not blindly or reflexively imitate imported European notions about modernity...

...Stephan Ruderer The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century . By Bawden John R. . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 288 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Merike Blofield A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru . By Necochea López Raúl . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 234 pp. Paper , $32.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...

...Erick D. Langer The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America , vol. 1, The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century . Edited by Thomas Victor Bulmer , Coatsworth John H. , and Conde Roberto Cortés . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . Notes. Bibliographic...

...Dagmar Bechtloff From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century . By Newson Linda A. and Minchin Susie . The Atlantic World, 12 . Leiden : Brill , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary...

... undoubtedly share aspects of a grand historical narrative: a long pre-European history characterized by relatively isolated indigenous populations, followed by three to four and a half centuries of colonialism and slavery; an unstable era of independence fraught with strongmen, civil/regional wars...

...Leslie S. Offutt Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley . Edited and translated by Townsend Camilla . With an essay by Lockhart James . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary...

...James A. Lewis The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure . By Bauer Arnold J. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii, 181 pp. Paper , $21.95 . Cloth , $74.95...

...Heidi Tinsman The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women’s Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile . By Mooney Jadwiga E. Pieper . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 301 pp. Paper , $27.95...

...Woodrow Borah The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study in Spanish Colonial Government . By Parry J. H. . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1948 . Pp. 204 . Map.) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...