..., progress-­driven ideas of the Enlightenment at both core and periphery of the Spanish Empire. The New Mexican and the peninsular were both enlightened royalists. Pino was the grandson and son of merchants in the northern provinces. The grandfather was an Italian immigrant. Cancelada was an immigrant...

...Paul Ross In the late nineteenth century, Mexico's Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease reporting...

...Jeffrey Lesser Looking like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945 . By García Jerry . Tuscon : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 249 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke...

...). Adorno’s essay is adapted from her recent book The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narra- tive; similarly Sandra Messinger Cypess here adapts a chapter from her 1991 book La Malinche in Mexican Literature from History to Myth. Five of the essays are by Carrasco, each deftly analyzing a...

...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 Book Reviews...

...Zaragosa Vargas Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Edited by david g. gutiérrez. Jaguar Books on Latin America. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1996. Tables. Notes. xvii, 271 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Paper, $16.95. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.1_08 Book...

...Othĺn Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico. By betty bernice faust Foreword by betty j. meggers. Westport, Conn.:Bergin & Garvey, 1998. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures...

...Joel S. Cleland An American Family in the Mexican Revolution. By robert woodmansee herr. In collaboration with richard herr. Introduction by william e. french. Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Index...

...Kevin Coleman Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons . By Mraz John . The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2012 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 315...

...Myrna Santiago British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919 . By Garner Paul . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 319 pp. Cloth...

...Jason Oliver Chang Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries . By Guidotti-Hernández Nicole M. . Latin America Otherwise . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 374 pp. Paper...

...Aurelia Valero Pie; Alex Thomas Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy . By Sánchez Carlos Alberto . SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2016 . Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Thomas Rath Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation . By Alexander Ryan M. . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2016 . Photographs. Table. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 245 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke...

...Mark Wasserman Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate . By Paxman Andrew . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 509 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Successful...

...Andrew J. Torget The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire . By Karl Jacoby . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 2016 . Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 304 pp. Cloth , $27.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Karl...

... enslaved and endured a harsh captivity of several years. Eventually, they managed to escape and work their way across the northern Mexican landscape as itinerant shamans or healers. They encountered a party of Spanish slavers who, upon realizing that they were not Indians, returned them to...

...William B. Taylor The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000 . By John Tutino . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 499 pp. Cloth , $39.50 . Copyright © 2019 by...

...Stuart M. McManus Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797 . By Stafford Poole . Revised edition . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2017 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 346 pp. Paper , $35.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...

...Michael Scott Van Wagenen The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War . By Peter Guardino . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. 502 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 For decades, historians of the...

...Vanni Pettinà Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside . By Tore C. Olsson . America in the World . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Index. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke...