...Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Puerto Rico 1898: The War after the War. By fernando picó. Translated by sylvia korwek and psique arana guzmán. Princeton: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2004. Photographs. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. xix, 165 pp. Cloth, $68.95. Paper $22.95. Duke...

...Charles R. Venator-Santiago Island at War is written in a clear manner. All the essays in this volume—including Fitzroy André Baptiste's contribution, which contains a discussion of technical documents addressing the construction of strategic bases—provide the reader with important background...

...Richard P. Tucker This brought Latin America into the orbit of the military powers' strategic plans for long-term control of natural resources critical for military security. Around Latin America and the Caribbean, the war years intensified the export economies' dependence on industrialized...

...William H. Beezley The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-revolutionary State . By Jones Halbert . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 296 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright...

...William F. Sater The Ten Cents War: Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific,1879-1884. By bruce w. farcau. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 214 pp. Cloth, $62.50. 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Book Reviews Background Alcohol in...

...Pedro Santoni Wars within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848 . By IRVING W. LEVINSON. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2005. Photograph. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xviii, 173 pp. Cloth...

...Kirsten Weld Abstract In 1976, Augusto Pinochet told Henry Kissinger that Chile was undergoing “a further stage of the same conflict which erupted into the Spanish Civil War.” Pinochet was not alone in this view; throughout the 1970s, Chilean rightists used the Spanish Civil War as a point of...

...Heidi Tinsman Abstract This essay interprets Chilean accounts of a loyalty oath by Chinese coolies to the Chilean army during the War of the Pacific against a broader social history of Chinese agrarian resistance in Peru and military experience in China. The essay argues that masculinity and labor...

...David Scott Palmer Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995. Edited by steve j. stern. Latin America Otherwise: Languages,Empires, Nations. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 534 pp. Cloth,$64.95...

...James Krippner-Martínez Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019). By serge gruzinski. Translated by heather maclean. Latin America Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 284 pp. Cloth, $59.95...

... Cruz in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War II. Perhaps without Latin American insistence and participation, the Universal Declaration Book Reviews / General 677 of Human Rights would not have emerged from the...

...Peter M. Beattie Blood and Debt: War and the Nation State in Latin America. By miguel angel centeno. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Map. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth, $45.00. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews...

...Raphael Folsom The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524 – 1550 . By Altman Ida . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xx, 340 pp. Paper, $28.95 . Copyright 2011 by...

... glossary, a bibliography, and an index. I was asked to write this review in part because I had previously reviewed Den- nis Tedlock’s 2003 Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice. A comparison of these two editions will be useful here, not simply because both books offer differing...

... 1919 U.S. customs tariff flooded the country with imported goods, which curtailed local manufacturing and Americanized local tastes. Local manufactures were later spurred on by World War I, as Dominican industries benefited from the increased U.S. demand for sugar products. Moya Pons notes that...

... disarmament. By dras- tically reducing customs duties, the 1919 U.S. customs tariff flooded the country with imported goods, which curtailed local manufacturing and Americanized local tastes. Local manufactures were later spurred on by World War I, as Dominican industries benefited from the increased...

...Seth Garfield Duke University Press 2006 Tapping Masculinity: Labor Recruitment to the Brazilian Amazon during World War II Seth Garfield Between 1942 and 1945, more than 32,000 male migrant workers were trans- ported to the Brazilian Amazon from the country’s Northeast, in the...

...Timothy E. Anna The Peninsular War: A New History. By charles esdaile. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv, 587 pp. Cloth, $40.00. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews General American Pentimento: The...

...Arthur Schmidt Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War,1846–1848. Edited by richard v. francaviglia and douglas w. richmond. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press,2000. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 191 pp. Paper,$16.95. 2004 by Duke University...

...Juan Manuel Palacio Revolution in Mexico's Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913–1920. By david g. lafrance. Wilmington, DE:SR Books, 2003. Bibliography. Index. xxv, 305 pp. Cloth, $65.00. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews General Defi ning...