...Jorge I. Domínguez Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of the Free Press in Mexico. By chappell h. lawson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 287 pp. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $19.95. 2004 by Duke...

...Dennis Gilbert Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979–1998. By adam jones. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Latin American Series, no. 37. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxx, 303 pp. Paper...

...Héctor Lindo-Fuentes The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice. By edward t. brett. Notre Dame, IN:University of Notre Dame, 2003. Notes. Index. iii, 265 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $22.00. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews...

...Joel Wolfe Britton has not produced a comprehensive study of new forms of communications, nor is his book an analysis of the promises and pitfalls of modernity in transforming Latin American nations or the region. Cables, Crises, and the Press is instead a series of discrete case studies that...

...Richard Warren The Political Power of the Word: Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Edited by iván jaksić. Nineteenth-Century Latin America. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2002. Tables. Bibliography. vii,158 pp. Paper, $19.95. 2003 by...

...Víctor M. Macías-González Chapter 5 explores the displacement of traditional, honor-based relations between the sexes by more companionate notions of love and intimacy built on criticism of machista behavior. Buffington explores how the penny press romance callejero (street romance), rooted...

...Corinna Zeltsman Abstract This article explores how printers and their collaborators shaped the implementation and interpretation of freedom of the press laws in early republican Mexico City. Far from passive reproducers of texts written by elites, printers and other behind-the-scenes actors...

... Havas, the first European press agency to provide such news to South America. The analysis focuses on two dimensions of the submarine cable's effect: changes in the spatial breadth of news coverage, and the acceleration of news circulation. In critical dialogue with the scholarly literature on this...

... vassals of all social backgrounds constantly suggested new laws to the ruling Council of the Indies. Pressed for time, the council's overwhelmed ministers often transplanted petitions' vocabulary verbatim into decrees. This meant that subjects often phrased imperial laws minor and major, regional and...

... conflict, and the active participation of the region in the construction of the state beginning in the 1820s. Indigenous leaders who also served as government officials pressed for institutionalized recognition of indigenous rights. That pressure eventually led to the acceptance of their claims and the...

..., and practices such as the Lancasterian system of monitorial education, trial by jury, freedom of the press laws, steam engines, and mining technology. This generation of independence leaders carried on a purposeful correspondence with famous British figures such as abolitionist William Wilberforce...

... both the political sociability of working-class families and their language of rights. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as trade-union journals, the left-wing press, major national newspapers, company documents, official records, and memoirs of labor militants, the essay contends that the great...

... completion, the popular figure of the arriero perõ (beardless macho) emerged in the company press as a counterexample to company formulations of idealized masculinity for male dam workers. Single male workers also had the opportunity to partake in educational talks and workshops deemed important to...

... 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Received Alfred Maudslay and the Maya. By ian graham. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Plates. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. 323 pp. Cloth, $39.95. The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions. By...

... 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Received América Latina: Despertar de un continente. By che guevara. Edited by maría del carmen ariel garcía. La Obra de Che Guevara. Melbourne: Ocean Books, 2003. Illustrations. Notes. 523 pp. Paper, $24.95. Andean Entrepreneurs...

... 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Received América Latina: Despertar de un continente. By che guevara. Edited by maría del carmen ariel garcía. La Obra de Che Guevara. Melbourne: Ocean Books, 2003. Illustrations. Notes. 523 pp. Paper, $24.95. Andean Entrepreneurs...

... Welfare in Mexico City, 1884 – 1943 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), examines changing urban family formations and domestic labor. She has also published articles on child abandonment, adoption, and domestic service in the Journal of Family History, The Americas, and the Journal of Women’s...

... 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Received Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico. By Pamela Voekel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 336 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Paper, $21.95. Amazon Sweet Sea: Land...

...David J. Weiland, III 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Received Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico. By Pamela Voekel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 336 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Paper, $21.95...

... 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books Received Atlas of the Year 1000. By john man. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. 144 pp. Cloth, $27.50. Paper, $19.95. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa...