...Herbert Klein; Francisco Vidal Luna 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Sources for the Study of Brazilian Economic and Social History on the Internet Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna In the past dozen years, the Internet has become a major source of information for modern...

...James A. Sandos Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain . By ROBERT H. JACKSON. Scottsdale, AZ...

...Erik Ching Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation, and Power in El Salvador . By virginia q. tilley. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 297 pp. Paper, $22.95. Duke University Press 2007...

...Stephen Offutt Power in Powerlessness: A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds in Urban Chile . By Lindhardt Martin . Religion in the Americas Series . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2012 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 270 pp. Cloth , $144.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...

...Aníbal González José Martí's Our America: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies. Edited by jeffrey belnap and raúl fernández. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Notes. Index. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper,$17.95. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

...Mark Thurner The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Edited by ileana rodríguez. Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xii, 459 pp. Cloth, $79.95. Paper, $27.95. 2002 by Duke University...

...Mark Alan Healey Building the New World: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960. By valerie fraser. New York: Verso, 2001. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 280 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Paper, $23.00. 2002 by Duke University Press...

...Frank Safford Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin America. Edited by james dunkerley. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2002. Tables. 298 pp. Paper. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews General American Pentimento: The...

...Karen Spalding Edited by joanne pillsbury. 3 volumes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. In collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliographies. Index. Vol. 1, 464 pp. Vol. 2, 384 pp. Vol. 3, 448 pp. Cloth...

...David Murray From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. By seymour drescher. Foreword by stanley l. engerman. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. xxv, 454 pp. Cloth, $45.00. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001...

...Hubert J. Miller The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America. Edited by austen ivereigh. Nineteenth-Century Latin America Series. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2000. Table Appendix. Notes. viii, 223 pp...

...Frank Salomon New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. By rolena adorno and ivan boserup. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press,2003. Illustrations. Tables. Bibliography. 140 pp. Paper. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book...

... libro cumple con el objetivo de mostrar cómo nuevos enfoques sobre la identidad étnica, nuevas preguntas y nuevas fuentes logran también nuevos resultados, al mostrar el dinamismo y la complejidad de los procesos de formación identitaria de árabes y judíos en el Cono Sur. The New Ethnic Studies in...

...Linda A. Newson The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru . By Jouve Martín José R. . McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University...

... explores the conceptual and methodological issues raised in studying labor that individual actors often performed in both public and private realms and in commodified and uncommodified forms. By considering studies dating back to the colonial period and across the Americas, this essay explores the...

... fiscal relations and that raises many important issues regarding the strategies of local elites within the imperial structure. They also demonstrate that the analysis of the internal dynamics of the Spanish empire can contribute forcefully to contemporary debates on the comparative study of eighteenth...

...José Carlos Chiaramonte The expression antigua constitución was frequently used in the Hispanic world at least since the second half of the eighteenth century in a manner similar to the British use of the terms “ancient constitution” or “fundamental law.” Scarcely studied, this political concept...

... community mobilization and family support in this labor protest. This study offers a fresh approach to this massive social conflict by reconstructing female public participation in its events. The study also takes gender as a category for analyzing the cultural meanings of sexual difference, which shaped...

... population to improve the Brazilian nation. Analysis of a broad range of archival and published primary sources reveals the gradual racialization of the DGE's institutional definition of “progress.” The study contributes to a growing body of research that examines how racial thought influenced the...

...Mark Carey During the 1930s, the German and Austrian Alpine Society sponsored three mountaineering-scientific expeditions to the Peruvian Andes, focusing especially on the Cordillera Blanca and adjacent valley known as the Callejón de Huaylas. They climbed mountains, conducted scientific studies...