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...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...

...Alejandro Frigerio Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina . Edited by Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 373 pp. Cloth , $120.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...

...James L. Hill Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires, and Land in Early Modern North America . By Allan Greer . Studies in North American Indian History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. xvii, 450 pp. Cloth , £76.99...

...Christopher Woolley A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America . Edited by John Soluri , Claudia Leal , and José Augusto Pádua . The Environment in History: International Perspectives . New York : Berghahn Books , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures...

...José Amador Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth . By Isabel M. Córdova . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 234 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...

...Cecilia Méndez-Gastelumendi Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 . By Nugent David . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1997 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 404 pp. Cloth, $55.00...

... how historians have concentrated their efforts “either on local communities or on national structures, either on law and doctrine or on social practices” (p. 4) and assumed “that early modern communities were fundamentally similar to our own” (p. 4). This book truly is not for the faint of heart...

... and graduate seminars and should be considered required reading for those interested not only in the fields of sexuality, but also of cultural, intellectual, and empire histories. Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico . By Carvajal Federico Garza . Austin...

...Ronn Pineo Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS . Edited by Armus Diego . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index . vii , 326 pp. Cloth , $64.95 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University...

... than chronological. The first four chapters deftly cover 450 years of Brazilian history, while the remaining four dwell on the making of a “modern” Brazil, whose various themes have both historical flashbacks and fast-forwards. The country’s modernization and material transformation has been impressive...

...Tamar Herzog Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World . By Silverblatt Irene . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 299 pp...

...Donna J. Guy Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina . By Ruggiero Kristen . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2004 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 244 pp. Cloth , $49.50 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...Thomas F. O’Brien Yankee Don’t Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture,and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950 . By Moreno Julio . The Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2003...

.... and Wasserman Mark . New York : Pearson Longman , 2005 . xxxi , 496 pp. Paper , $66.00 . Latin America: The Peoples and Their History . By Beezley William H. and Maclachlan Colin . 2nd ed. Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth , 2007 . 278 pp. Paper , $51.95 . Modern Latin...

...Heidi Tinsman Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America . Edited by Caulfield Sueann , Chambers Sarah C. , and Putnam Lara . Durham : Duke University Press , 2005 . Bibliographies. Notes. Index . 331 pp. Cloth , $89.50 . Paper , $24.95 . © 2007 by Duke...

...Roderic Al Camp Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876-1911 . By Holden Robert H. . DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press , 1994 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xvi , 235 pp. Cloth . $30.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke...

...Eduardo Posada Carbó Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gómez Years, 1889–1965 . By Henderson James D. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2001 . Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 508 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke...

...Jeffrey G. Mauck Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol . By Flores Richard R. . History Culture and Society . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2002 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxi, 192 pp. Cloth, $40.00 . Paper, $17.95...

...Hobart A. Spalding Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History . By Turits Richard Lee . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2003 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 384 pp. Cloth, $65.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke...

...Peter Guardino The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780–1824 . Edited by Archer Christon I. . Latin American Silhouettes . Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources , 2003 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 257 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004...