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  • Editor(s):
  • Gareth A. Jones, London School of Economics, UK
    Rory Miller, University of Liverpool, UK
    Fiona Macaulay, University of Bradford, UK

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Table of Contents - Volume 40 - Issue 01   [Author Index] [Keyword Index]

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Research Articles

 
 

Pension Reform in Latin America: Distributional Principles, Inequalities and Alternative Policy Options

CAMILA ARZA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 1-28
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003616 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

The President's ‘New’ Constituency: Lula and the Pragmatic Vote in Brazil's 2006 Presidential Elections

CESAR ZUCCO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 29-49
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003628 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Accountability in Hostile Times: the Case of the Peruvian Human Rights Ombudsman 1996–2001

THOMAS PEGRAM

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 51-82
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0700363X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Shaping Taxation: Economic Elites and Fiscal Decision-Making in Argentina, 1920–1945

JOSÉ ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ ROMÁN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 83-108
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003641 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

The Resistance of the Marginalised: Catholics in Eastern Michoacán and the Mexican State, 1920–40

ENRIQUE GUERRA MANZO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 109-133
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003653 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Camilla Townsend, Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), pp. xv+287, $23.95, pb; £14.95, pb.

CAROLINE DODDS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 135-136
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003665 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Ellen Gunnarsdóttir, Mexican Karismata: The Baroque Vocation of Francisca de los Angeles, 1674–1744 (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), pp. xii+305, £19.95, pb.

AMANDA POWELL

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 136-139
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003677 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Silvia Hunold Lara and Joseli Maria Nunes Mendonça (eds.), Direitos e justiças no Brasil: Ensaios de história social (Campinas, SP, Brazil: Editora Unicamp, 2006), pp. 543, pb.

MATTHIAS RÖHRIG ASSUNÇÃO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 139-141
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003689 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), pp. xvi+278, $39.95, hb.

ANTONI KAPCIA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 141-143
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003690 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw (eds.), Heroes & Hero Cults in Latin America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006), pp. viii+318, £13.99, pb.

WILL FOWLER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 143-145
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003707 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Julia Rodriguez, Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine and the Modern State (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), pp. xii+202, $59.95, $24.95, pb.

CRISTIANA SCHETTINI PEREIRA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 145-147
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003719 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Patrick J. McNamara, Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz & the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855–1920 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), pp. xiv+282, $65.00, $23.00, pb.

GUY THOMSON

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 147-149
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003720 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Marie Eileen Francois, A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920 (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006), pp. xiii+415, £22.95, pb.

JOCELYN OLCOTT

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 149-151
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003732 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

John E. Stealey (ed.), Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879–1885 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2006), pp. xv+1085, $65.00, hb.

MATTHEW D. ESPOSITO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 151-153
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003744 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Kenneth P. Serbin, Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. xix+476, $60.00, hb.

CHRISTINE A. KEARNEY

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 153-155
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003756 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Jens R. Hentschke (ed.), Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xiv+306, £42.50; $74.95, hb.

JOSEPH L. LOVE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 155-157
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003768 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Peter M. Sánchez, Panama Lost? U.S. Hegemony, Democracy and the Canal (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007), pp. x+251, $59.95, hb.

MICHAEL L. CONNIFF

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 157-159
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0700377X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers and Lara Putnam (eds.), Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. viii+331, £67.00, £16.95, pb.

TANJA CHRISTIANSEN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 159-160
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003781 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. xvii+277, £48.00; $80.00, hb.

GEORGE PHILIP

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 161-162
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003793 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Thomas C. Wright, State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina and International Human Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefied, 2007), pp. xvi+267, £19.99, pb.

SUSAN BERGER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 162-164
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0700380X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007), pp. xxx+285, £19.99, pb.

GREGORY WEEKS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 164-165
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003811 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Fiona Macaulay, Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile: The Role of Parties in National and Local Policymaking (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2006), pp. xvi+231, £50.00, hb.

PETER M. SIAVELIS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 165-167
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003823 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Shannon Speed, R. Aída Hernández Castillo and Lynn M. Stephen (eds.), Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006), pp. xxiv+280, $55.00, $22.95, pb.

FLORENCE E. BABB

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 167-169
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003835 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Elisa Larkin Nascimento, The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race and Gender in Brazil (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007), pp. xii+324, $49.50, hb.

GEORGE REID ANDREWS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 170-171
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003847 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Christine Kovic, Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. viii+238, $50.00, $19.95, pb.

HEIDI MOKSNES

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 171-173
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003859 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Robert G. Finbow, The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006), pp. xiii+300, £55.00, hb.

KEVIN J. MIDDLEBROOK

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 173-175
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003860 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Santiago Levy, Progress Against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2006), pp. xi+166, £11.99, pb.

MAXINE MOLYNEUX

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 175-177
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003872 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López, Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007), pp. xiii+286, £37.00, pb.

HAL KLEPAK

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 177-179
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003884 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Hilary Kahn, Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala and Beyond (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006), pp. xi+242, £12.99, pb.

WALTER E. LITTLE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 179-181
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003896 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Sarah England, Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006), pp. xvi+273, $59.95, hb.

MARC D. PERRY

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 181-183
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003902 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

María Cristina García, Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006), pp. xvi+273, £12.95, pb.

SUSANNE JONAS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 183-185
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003914 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Gavin O'Toole, Politics Latin America (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2007), pp. xxix+599, £26.99, pb.

LAURENCE ALLAN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 185-186
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003926 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

Mila Gascó Hernández (ed.), Latin America Online: Cases, Successes and Pitfalls (Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 2007), pp. xxiii+361, US$94.95, $79.95, pb.

EDWARD A. RIEDINGER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 186-188
doi:10.1017/S0022216X07003938 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
 

New Books Received

 
 

Books Received

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, February 2008, pp 189-194
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0700394X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Feb 2008
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