...Ruth Glasser All in all, however, Latina Politics, Latino Politics is an exceptionally sensitive, nuanced, and well-written book. I highly recommend it for students of both political science and Latino studies, as well as for community activists. Second, it would have been helpful...

...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism . By Go Julian . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi...

...Paul J. Dosal Che Guevara and the FBI: The U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary . Edited by Ratner Michael and Smith Michael Steven . Melbourne : Ocean Press , 1997 . Photographs. Plates . xxii , 213 pp. Paper, $18.95 . Che Guevara Reader...

...John A. Peeler Latin American Politics: A Theoretical Framework . By Di Tella Torcuato S. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1989 . Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography . 236 pp. Cloth . $27.50 . The Democratic Revolution in Latin America: History, Politics...

...Robert J. Alexander Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change . Edited by Hartlyn Jonathan and Morley Samuel A. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1986 . Notes. Tables. References . Pp. 386 . Cloth . $38.00 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University...

...Patrick Bryan Race, Class and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics . By Waters Anita M. . New Brunswick : Transaction Books , 1985 . Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 343 . Cloth. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

... in the book, the treatment of Latin American cases in the context of the global peasant phenomenon would be of considerable value to him. Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures toward Political and Social Change in the Third World . By Migdal Joel S. . Princeton , 1974 . Princeton...

.... None of this is particularly novel. The usefulness of this study is largely confined to the chapters on the Alessandri period and the first two years of the Frei government. The rest is based on very thin research. The discussion of working class politics would have benefitted from a reading of Angell...

...Sandra Lauderdale Gaúcho Politics in Brazil: The Politics of Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1964 . By Cortés Carlos E. . Albuquerque , 1974 . University of New Mexico Press . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. xii , 252 . Cloth . $12.00 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

...Sheldon B. Liss The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years . By Mellander G. A. . Foreword by Dodd Thomas J. . Danville, Illinois , 1971 . © 1967. Interstate Printers & Publishers . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 215 . Cloth. $7.95 . Yanqui...

...Ronald H. McDonald Political Participation in Latin America . Vol. II: Politics and the Poor . Edited by Seligson Mitchell A. and Booth John . New York : Holmes and Meier Publishers , 1979 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 262 . Cloth . $24.50...

... relationships and in making sense of deviations from “expected” results (for example, the inability of standard modernization theory to explain patterns of participation in Venezuela). The authors’ aim is to take the methods, insights, and goals of politically oriented North American survey research and use...

... removal, as Dr. Prado discovered at the very end of his term. The author spent a year in Lima, teaching English at the University of San Marcos, and in his spare time interviewed a number of political and labor leaders. This was during 1961, the latter portion of the second administration of Manuel...

...William P. Tucker Robert E. Scott’s essay, “Mexico: The Established Revolution,” will be of most interest to Latin Americanists. Scott notes that Mexico has sought to modernize politically without using a dictatorial or rigid ideological framework, and also that the modernization...

...Robert D. Tomasek The essay by Daniel R. Goldrich is a description of a questionnaire research project on the political orientations of Panamanian and Costa Rican secondary-school students that he carried out to determine the extent to which failure to control for response set could affect...

.... It may be asking too much, but are there comparative examples outside Latin America where these various elements are held in the right kind of balance? These speculations, however, rest upon the achievement of the author in providing the indispensable guide to the politics of labor reform in recent years...

...Barbara Potthast South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text . By Davies Catherine , Brewster Claire , and Owen Hilary . Liverpool Latin American Studies, new series, 7 . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2006 . Plates. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi...

...Adrian A. Bantjes Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir . By Bornemann Alberto Ulloa . Edited and translated by Schmidt Arthur and De Schmidt Aurora Camacho . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. Cloth...

... careful editing. After such a long wait, readers deserved a more accessible final product. Those whose research interests overlap with the book’s topic will likely find themselves consulting the French or Spanish version more often than this edition. Civility and Politics in the Origins...

...Ronn Pineo Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900 – 1950 . By Zulawski Ann . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 253 pp. Cloth , $74.95 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke...