... the author’s perspective, the formation of Mexican national identity has been “carried out largely through the modern visual cultures of photography, cinema and picture stories” (p. 2); consequently a dialogue with the history of images of Mexico enriches the analysis of the foundations of mexicanidad...

...Laura Gotkowitz Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements . By Becker Marc . Latin America Otherwise . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxv , 303 pp. Paper , $22.95...

... across the Christian kingdoms. After tracing larger patterns, the work dips into regional monographs for deeper exploration. This structure works especially well on topics like law, where continuities and precedents mattered from the Roman to the early modern period. But the lack of patterns can also...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico . By Lund Joshua . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 217 pp. Paper , $25.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Mestizo State...

...Christoph Rosenmüller Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World . By Myrup Erik Lars . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 241 pp. Cloth , $42.50 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke...

...Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World . By Hamann Byron Ellsworth . Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures...

...Mary Kay Vaughan Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico . By Wright-Rios Edward . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 390 pp. Paper , $34.95...

...Michael J. Schroeder Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State . By Chávez Daniel . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2015 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 363 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright ©...

...Martín Rodrigo y Alharilla Monsters by Trade: Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture . By Surwillo Lisa . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 251 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2017...

... compulsory primary education in the early twentieth century mean for the Mapuche? In what ways did they engage with national debates about schooling and with broader state discourses of civilization and modernization? What type of education did they seek? What did discourses of indigenismo (since 1940...

...Adriana Zavala María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art . By Deffebach Nancy . Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii...

...James A. Garza True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico . Edited by Buffington Robert and Piccato Pablo . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . Illustrations. Notes. Index. xi , 276 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Honor and Personhood in Early Modern Mexico . By Pardo Osvaldo F. . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 237 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Studies of honor...

...Guillermo T. Aveledo Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela . By Velasco Alejandro . Oakland : University of California Press , 2015 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 312 pp. Paper , $29.95...

... into a popular sport in the United States, which was encouraged by the purchase of top international players and the formation of very rich clubs, such as the famous New York Cosmos. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern...

... of laborers; there was, for example, nothing comparable to the mechanics' institutes of nineteenth-century England. This book establishes a model and a set of guiding questions for investigating technological development and adoption in modern Latin America. It should inspire scholars to conduct more...

...Barbara Ganson The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes . By Hiatt Willie . New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 229 pp. Cloth , $74.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke...

...Styliane Philippou Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital . By O'rourke Kathryn E. . Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2016 . Photographs. Plates. Figures. Notes...

...Seonaid Valiant The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico . By Christina Bueno . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 267 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright ©...

...Robert M. Buffington Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico . By Kathryn A. Sloan . Violence in Latin American History . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 257 pp. Paper...