...David Barkin Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 . By Ochoa Enrique C. . Latin American Silhouettes . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 2000 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 267 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University...

... she has done an admirable job of mining these sources to look at the relationship between food, ritual, and life. This book will clearly be an important point of departure for future scholarship. The arrival of the Spanish created what Alfred Crosby has called the Columbian exchange, wherein...

...Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity . By Cuadra Cruz Miguel Ortíz . Translated by Davidson Russ . Latin America in Translation / en Traducción / em Tradução . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Figures...

...Joel Horowitz Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food . By Pite Rebekah E. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 326 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright ©...

...Natalia Milanesio Abstract From the beginning of Juan Domingo Perón’s administration, food consumption was both a significant object of state policy and a central component of official propaganda. This essay resists the analytical separation between politics and imaginaries in order to expand our...

...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 . By Earle Rebecca . Critical Perspectives on Empire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 265 pp...

...Christopher R. Boyer Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food . By Pilcher Jeffrey M. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 292 pp. Cloth , $27.95 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 A well...

...Joshua Frens-String Abstract This article examines the politics of food during Chile's Popular Unity (UP) revolution (1970–73). Organized around the rise and fall of the Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios (Price and Supply Committees, JAPs), a state-backed network of collectively managed stores...

...J. R. McNeill Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba . By Louis A. Pérez Jr . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. xiv, 249 pp. Paper, $32.50 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University...

...Rick A. López ¡Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity . By Pilcher Jeffrey M. . Diálogos Series . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index , x, 234 pp. Cloth , $37.50 . Paper...

...James J. Parsons Food, Conquest and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America . By Super John C. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1988 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 133 . Paper. $11.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

...Frank Salomon The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes . By Morales Edmundo . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxvii , 177 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 1996...

...Inés Pérez Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain . Edited by Rafael Climent-Espino and Ana M. Gómez-Bravo Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . 372 pp. Paper, $34.95...

...Meritxell Tous Ardren and the collection's contributors painstakingly advance a unique, compelling, and thorough analysis of the social uses of food and foodways in Classic Maya culture, grounded in rich evidence analyzed from a diverse range of approaches. This volume sets the groundwork...

...Julie A. Charlip Berth describes her focus as “on the overlooked story of how food and its scarcity shaped contemporary Nicaraguan history between the 1950s and 1993” (p. 5). While other authors have addressed poverty in Nicaragua, much of their focus has been on the erosion of subsistence...

...Nicole Pacino Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile . By Joshua Frens-String . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 305 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright ©...

... concerns the effects of food price increases on the general price level. Did relative price changes merely accompany inflation? Did they “cause” inflation, and if so, to what degree? Or did rises in relative food prices result from harmful feedbacks to agriculture, e.g., a reduction during...

...John M. Dyer U. S. Investment in Latin American Food Processing . By Moore John R. and Padovano Frank A. . New York , 1967 . Frederick A. Praeger . Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development . Maps. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. xiii , 208...

...Ieda S. Wiarda The Race between Population and Food Supply in Latin America . By Smith T. Lynn . Albuquerque , 1976 . University of New Mexico Press . Tables. Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. ix , 194 . Cloth. $12.50 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Smith...