...Elman R. Service Paraguay, a Riverside Nation . By Pendle George . London , 1954 . Royal Institute of International Affairs . Maps. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vi , 115 . $2.50 . Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...A. J. G. Knox The West Indies Federation: Perspectives on a New Nation . Edited by Lowenthal David . New York , 1961 . Columbia University Press . American Geographical Society Research Series Number 23 . Map. Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 142 . $3.00 . Copyright...

... approach (common in Puerto Rican studies), the book makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Puerto Rican cinema and culture. Serving as a counterweight to traditional national histories of early cinema, it would make a great addition to syllabi in global film courses as well. The book...

...Brian Bockelman Civility and Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829 – 1862 . By De Quirós Pilar González Bernaldo . UCLA Latin American Studies, 88 . Los Angeles : UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California , 2006...

...Ida Altman A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492 – 1640 . By Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . Illustrations. Maps. Table. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . x , 242...

...Susan M. Deeds The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920 – 1940 . Edited by Vaughan Mary Kay and Lewis Stephen E. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Index . viii , 363 pp. Cloth , $84.95...

... of government or “national peak.” While there is a significant historiography on the Revolution of 1814–15, it has been largely overlooked in several key Latin American independence syntheses. This essay therefore also seeks to restore the movement to the center of wider historiographic debates on Latin...

...Raanan Rein Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880 – 1955 . By Deutsch Sandra McGee . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 377 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Cloth , $84.95...

... their military service under the notorious dictatorship of Jorge Ubico as a largely positive experience that simultaneously strengthened both their ties to the nation and their ethnic identities. The authors generally do a good job of analyzing the complexities of their findings without romanticizing...

...Joseph L. Arbena Representing the Nation: Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico . By Brewster Claire Brewster Keith . New York : Routledge , 2010 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 177 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press...

...John J. Dwyer Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s . By Gauss Susan M. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2010 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 292 pp. Cloth , $64.95 . Copyright 2012...

...Joaquín Fermandois Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile’s Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War . By Pavilack Jody . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. xvii , 396 pp. Cloth , $84.95...

...Jordana Dym L’indépendance argentine entre cités et nation (1808–1821) . By Verdo Geneviève . Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne , 2006 . Bibliography. Onomastic Index . 477 pp. €29 . Ayuntamientos y liberalismo gaditano en México . Edited by Escamilla Juan Ortiz...

...Alejandra Bronfman Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean . By Buscaglia-Salgado José . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index . xxv , 340 pp. Cloth , $63.95 . Paper , $22.95 . Copyright 2006 by Duke...

...Susan M. Gauss Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico . By Weiner Richard . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2004 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 167 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 With the recent turn...

...Jennie Purnell The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910 – 1945 . By Lewis Stephen E. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2005 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 283 pp. Paper , $24.95 . © 2007 by Duke University...

... state. The official history of nationalist aesthetics and national identity — with its essentialist claims to mexicanidad or lo mexicano , its iconization of (male) cultural caudillos, and its close association of cultural nationalism with the state — has received less attention. The critical...

...Oliver Dinius Nation gegen Hinterland — Der Krieg von Canudos in Brasilien: Ein Diskursives Ereignis (1874 – 1903) . By Bartelt Dawid Danilo . Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 2003 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography . 408 pp. Paper . © 2006 by Duke University...

...Zephyr Frank Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906 – 1930 . By Diacon Todd A. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 228 pp. Cloth , $74.95 . Paper...

...Ricardo D. Salvatore The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Stories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776 – 1870 . By Shumway Jeffrey M. . Engendering Latin America , vol. 4 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes...