...Richard A. Warren Space and Place in the Mexican Landscape: The Evolution of a Colonial City . By Núñez Fernando , Arvizu Carlos , and Abonce Ramón . Edited by Quantrill Malcolm . Studies in Architecture and Culture, 7 . College Station : Texas A & M University...

...Styliane Philippou Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba: Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754–1828 . By Niell Paul . Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Deborah Kanter Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe . By Peña Elaine A. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 219 pp. Paper $24.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...A. Kim Clark City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito . By Capello Ernesto . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2011 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 290 pp. Paper , $27.95...

...Styliane Philippou Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space . By Wagner Logan , Box Hal , and Morehead Susan Kline . Roger Fullington Series in Architecture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps...

...Sabine Hyland At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero . By Nair Stella . Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 . By Ramírez Cristina Devereaux . Foreword by Royster Jacqueline Jones . Translations by Pouwels Joel Bollinger and Devereaux Neil J. . Tucson...

...Sarah C. Chambers House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literature by Women . By Rodríguez Ileana . Translated by Carr Robert and Rodríguez Ileana . Durham : Duke University Press , 1994 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 223...

...Gary Urton Space-Time of the Bororo of Brazil . By Fahian Stephen Michael . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1992 . Photographs. Maps. Plates. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Index . xiii , 253 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke...

...Alanna Ossa The Ancient Maya Marketplace: The Archaeology of Transient Space . Edited by King Eleanor M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. x, 325 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Gary M. Feinman Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space . By Lomnitz-Adler Claudio . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 386 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...

... their wives to serve as praças . 9 Thus if the house represented one end of a spectrum of social values, the barracks stood at the opposite end. The barracks was a suspect social space, a place for orphans, seducers, vagrants, ex-slaves, “perverts,” and thieves, but not the “men or sons of families...

... confirmed their superiority to and power over others. For the most part, however, almost against the author’s stated intentions, Shaping the Discourse on Space paints a seemingly omnipotent picture of bourgeois agency. The men of the rising urban professional classes in Puerto Rico consistently create...

... conceptualization of space is a unifying theme, the chapters can be read as separate units. The black-and-white illustrations are clear and carefully executed, and I particularly appreciated the supplementary color photographs. Solari's ideas strengthen the arguments of those who perceive the Yucatec Maya...

...Adriana J. Bergero Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955 – 1973 . By Podalsky Laura . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 287 pp. Cloth...

... and women’s accounts of the movement to reveal the gendered underpinnings of Mexican political culture. Narratives centered on the leaders’ accounts have too narrowly defined the space of the movement; consequently, juxtaposing the accounts of male leaders and female participants breaks open these definitions...

...Andrew Konove Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Sandra C. Mendiola García . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 271 pp. Paper , $30.00...

...Jennifer Eaglin The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro . By Shawn William Miller . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 345 pp...

...Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy . By Chris Hesketh . Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2017 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 223 pp...

...Jesús F. de la Teja Contested Spaces is not without its problems. For instance, Mandrini's comparison of the 1758 Comanche-Norteño attack on the isolated Franciscan mission of San Saba in Texas with the Pampas Indian attack on the Buenos Aires area in 1740 is an overreach. And the fact...