Books Received for Review

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BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW Books currently available for review, The Latin Americanist as of 27 May 2009 Bruce Dean Willis Book Review Editor, TLA University of Tulsa bruce-dean-willis@utulsa.edu Ameringer, Charles D. 2009. The Socialist Impulse: Latin America in the Twentieth Century. UP of Florida. Arnold, Denise Y. and Christine A. Hastorf. 2008. Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes. Left Coast Press. Baker, Geoffrey. 2008. Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco. Duke UP. Bain, Mervyn J. 2008. Russian-Cuban Relations since 1992: Continuing Camaraderie in a Post-Soviet World. Lexington Books. Barmeyer, Niels. 2009. Developing Zapatista Autonomy: Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas. U New Mexico P. Breton, Andre. 2008. Martinique: Snake Charmer. Trans David W. Seaman. U Texas P. Buchenau, Jurgen and William H. Beezley, eds. 2009. State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1952: Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption. Rowman & Littlefield. Buck-Morss, Susan. 2009. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. U Pittsburgh P. Carter, Thomas F. 2008. The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball. Duke UP. Clancy, Flora Simmons. 2009. The Monuments of Piedras Negras, An Ancient Mayan City. U New Mexico P. Cohen, Daria. 2008. Demystifying the Female Body in Hispanic Male Authors, 1880–1920. Edwin Mellen. Crabtree, John, and Laurence Whitehead, eds. 2008. Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present. U Pittsburgh P. del Rı́o, Vicente and William Siembieda, eds. 2009. Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brası́lia. UP of Florida. Dı́az del Castillo, Bernal. The History of the Conquest of New Spain. Trans. David Carrasco. U New Mexico P. Dodson, Jualynne E. 2008. Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba. U New Mexico P. Domı́nguez, Jorge I., and Michael Shifter, eds. 2008. Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. 3rd . ed. Johns Hopkins UP. C 2009 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 107 The Latin Americanist, June 2009 Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. 2008. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America , 1521–1821. U New Mexico P. Duke, Dawn. 2008. Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers. Bucknell UP. Dwyer, John J. 2008. The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of AmericanOwned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Duke UP. Edmonds-Poli, Emily and David A. Shirk. 2009. Contemporary Mexican Politics. Rowman & Littlefield. Escobar, Arturo. 2008. Territories of Difference: place, movements, life, redes. Duke UP. Faingold, Eduardo. 2008. Emigrar después del exilio: De Argentina a Israel. Ediciones Al Margen. Fischer, Brodwyn. 2008. A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Stanford UP. Fisher, Andrew B. and Matthew D. O’Hara, eds. 2009. Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America. Duke UP. Fuente, Alejandro de la. 2008. Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century . U North Carolina P. Funes Monzote, Reinaldo. 2008. From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492. Trans. Alex Martin. U North Carolina P. Garcés, Elena. 2008. Colombian Women: The Struggle out of Silence. Lexington Books. Goodale, Mark. 2009. Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounter with Law and Liberalism. Stanford UP. Gootenberg, Paul. 2008. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. U North Carolina P. Gotkowitz, Laura. 2008. A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952. Duke UP. Gould, Jeffrey L. and Aldo Lauria-Santiago. 2008. To Rise in Darkness : Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador: 1920–1932. Duke UP. Gray, Alexander, and Antoni Kapcia. 2008. The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society. UP Florida. Guy, Donna J. 2009. Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955. Duke UP. Hagedorn, Dan. 2008. Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America. UP of Florida. Harris, Richard L. and Jorge Nef. 2008. Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. New Edition. Rowman & Littlefield. Hearn, Adrian H. 2008. Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development. Duke UP. Herschfield, Joanne. 2008. Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936. Duke UP. Joseph, Gilbert M. and Daniela Spenser, eds. 2008. In...