Books reviewed:Lockhart, Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American HistoryBarman, Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–91Harding, A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness in BrazilBuffington, Criminal and Citizen in Modern MexicoOchoa, Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910Clarke, Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca’s PeasantriesRovira, Women of Maize: Indigenous Women and the Zapatista RebellionAssies, The Challenge of Diversity: Indigenous peoples and reform of the state in Latin AmericaTulchin and Garland, Social Development in Latin America. The Politics of ReformGelles, Water and Power in Highland Peru: the Cultural Politics of Irrigation and DevelopmentStarn, Nightwatch: the Politics of Protest in the AndesPayne, Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin AmericaSilva, The Soldier and the State in South America: Essays in Civil‐Military RelationsRoniger and Sznajder, The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone, Argentina, Chile, and UruguaySmith, Inevitable Partnership: Understanding Mexico‐US RelationsRoniger and Sznajder, (eds.) Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American PathsLarraín, Identity and Modernity in Latin AmericaCaister, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion