...Felipe Fernández-Armesto Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or `Seeing the Elephant' as the Theme for an Imaginary Western). By james dunkerley. London: Verso, 2000. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. xxvi, 642 pp. Cloth,$45.00...

...Andrae Marak No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776 . By Loveman Brian . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 539 pp. Cloth, $35.00 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University...

...Paul Sullivan 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse . By Restall Matthew Solari Amara . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Index. Bibliography. xi, 146 pp. Cloth , $16.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke...

...Patrick Frank The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere . Edited by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, And Jonathan Weinberg. Refiguring Modernism, 4. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index. xxii...

...Seth Fein Designing Pan-America: US Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere . By González Robert Alexander . Foreword by Rydell Robert . Roger Fullington Series in Architecture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes...

...José C. Moya 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 A Continent of Immigrants: Postcolonial Shifts in the Western Hemisphere José C. Moya Latin Americans usually conceive the Western Hemisphere as a single con- tinent. Geographically, the notion is no more, or less, arbitrary than...

... socioeconomic similarities were more important, as Mexicans, African Americans, Chinese people, and lower-class Anglos all resided and worked in the same places. Sanctioning Matrimony: Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands . By Acosta Sal . Tucson : University of...

...Charlotte M. Gradie Michoacán and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico. By bernardino verástique. Austin:University of Texas Press, 2000. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 194 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Paper, $19.95. 2001 by Duke University Press...

...Michael J. Pisani The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua. By les w. field. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $17.95. 2001 by Duke University Press...

... labor policies toward Latin America and the conditions of labor politics in Brazil, contrary to what happened in Western Europe. The developments on both domestic and international fronts of organized labor had important implications for the political economy of growth and inequality, as the...

... Western fiscal systems into Venezuela resulted in a circuitous, contingent transition, producing state structures that combined patrimonial and legal-rational practices and that thus may be characterized as neopatrimonial. The Gómez regime introduced direct administration of the liquor tax into certain...

... persuaded many of their American counterparts that Mexican experts could be trusted partners in defending the health of the western hemisphere. The article describes the Atlantic world of Mexican medicine in the nineteenth century, the significance of public health within a context shaped by rising U.S...