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Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp f1-f7
doi:10.1017/S0022216X09005537 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
 

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Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp b1-b8
doi:10.1017/S0022216X09005549 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
 

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New Forms of Social Assistance and the Evolution of Social Protection in Latin America

ARMANDO BARRIENTOS and CLAUDIO SANTIBÁÑEZ

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 1-26
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005099 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina

PETER NEWELL

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 27-57
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005105 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Lost in Translation: Interpreting the Failure of Privatisation in the Brazilian Electric Power Industry

SUNIL TANKHA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 59-90
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005117 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Sentencing the Social Question: Court-Made Labour Law in Cases of Occupational Accidents in Argentina, 1900–1915

LINE SCHJOLDEN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 91-120
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005129 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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The Future of Christianity in Latin America

DANIEL H. LEVINE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 121-145
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005130 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Thomas H. Holloway (ed.), A Companion to Latin American History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp. x+530, $199.95; £95.00, hb.

PETER BLANCHARD

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 147-148
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005142 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf, Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press), pp. 296, $65.00, $34.95 pb; £35.00, £18.99 pb.

JUSTIN JENNINGS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 148-150
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005154 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk (eds.), Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), pp. xiv+349, $45.00, hb.

WILLIAM R. FOWLER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 150-152
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005166 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Nora E. Jaffary, Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas (Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2007), pp. xii+206, £55.00 hb.

ELLEN GUNNARSDOTTIR

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 152-154
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005178 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Víctor Peralta Ruiz, Patrones, clients y amigos: El poder burocrático indiano en la España del siglo XVIII (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2006), pp. 289, pb.

ADRIAN PEARCE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 154-156
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0800518X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss (eds.), Gender, Sexuality and Power in Latin America since Independence (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007), pp. viii+309, £19.99, pb.

ROSIO CORDOVA PLAZA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 156-157
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005191 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Brian Vale, Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp. ix+238, £25.00, hb.

TIMOTHY E. ANNA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 158-159
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005208 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Gerald Horne, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007), pp. v+341, $75.00, $24.00 pb.

DALE T. GRADEN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 159-161
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0800521X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Dale Torston Graden, From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835–1900 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), pp. xxviii+297, $24.95, pb.

MARY ANN MAHONY

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 161-162
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005221 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Matt D. Childs, The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), pp. xi+300, $55, $21.95 pb.

ANTONI KAPCIA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 162-164
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005233 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Matthew Brown (ed.), Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital (Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. xi+274, £19.99; €27.00, pb.

PHILLIP DEHNE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 164-166
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005245 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Ignacio Klich (ed.), Árabes y Judíos en América Latina: Historia, representaciones y desafíos (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editora Iberoamericana, 2006), pp. 409, pb.

DANIEL H. LEVINE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 166-168
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005257 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Justin Wolfe, The Everyday Nation-State: Community & Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. xi+272, £22.00, hb.

HÉCTOR LINDO-FUENTES

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 168-170
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005269 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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James Alex Garza, The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City (Lincoln, NE, & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. x+220, £25.00, hb.

ROBERT BUFFINGTON

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 170-172
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005270 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Iván Molina Jiménez, Anticomunismo reformista: Competencia electoral y cuestión social en Costa Rica (1931–1948) (San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 2007), pp. 222, pb.

RODOLFO CERDAS

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 172-174
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005282 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Harvey R. Neptune, Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007), pp. xiii+274, $59.95, $21.95 pb.

COLIN CLARKE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 174-176
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005294 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Gerald Horne, Cold War in a Hot zone: The United States Confronts Labour and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007), pp. 262, $25.95, pb.

AVIVA CHOMSKY

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 176-177
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005300 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Theron Corse, Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007), pp. xi+195, $59.95, hb.

DANIEL R. MILLER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 177-179
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005312 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Turid Hagene, Negotiating Love in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: The role of Love in the Reproduction of Gender Asymmetry (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 341, €55.40; £36.00; $85.95, pb.

CLAUDIA LOZANO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 179-181
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005324 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Roger Sansi, Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007), pp. 213, £30.00, hb.

EMMA COHEN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 181-182
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005336 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Sean Stroud, The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. ix+215, £50.00, hb.

LISA SHAW

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 183-184
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005348 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), pp. xvi+312, $55.00, hb.

AARON SCHNEIDER

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 184-186
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0800535X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008), pp. xiv+257, £37.50, hb.

DIANA RABY

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 186-188
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005361 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Sian Lazar, El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiii+328, £51.00, £12.99 pb.

JUAN MANUEL ARBONA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 188-191
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005373 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Marc Becker, Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xxv+303, $79.95, $22.95 pb.

DONNA LEE VAN COTT

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 191-192
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005385 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Jonathan Fox, Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xi+438, £55.00, £14.99 pb.

ALBERTO ARCE

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 193-194
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005397 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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C. Mathews Samson, Re-enchanting the World: Maya Protestantism in the Guatemalan Highlands (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2007), pp. xvii+197, $60.00, $29.95 pb.

HENRI GOOREN

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 194-196
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005403 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia (Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+304, £13.99, pb.

CASEY HIGH

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 197-198
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005415 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright (eds.), In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), pp. 327, £17.50, pb.

DANIELA M. PELUSO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 199-200
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005427 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Lawrence Ziegler-Otero, Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaorani Organizing Against the Global Economy (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007), pp. vii+176, $25.00, pb.

EVAN KILLICK

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 200-202
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005439 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Anil Hira, An East Asian Model for Latin American Success (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. xx+186, £55.00, hb.

LUCIANO CIRAVEGNA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 202-203
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien and Paul Haslam (eds.), Governing the Americas; Assessing Multilateral Institutions (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. vii+317, £40.95, hb.

GEORGE PHILIP

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 203-205
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005452 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Linn Hammergren, Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), pp. 360, $65.00, hb.

JULIO RIOS-FIGUEROA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 205-207
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005464 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xviii+283, $84.95, $23.95 pb; £55.00, £13.99 pb.

EDUARDO SILVA

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 207-209
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005476 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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David V. Carruthers (ed.), Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice (London: The MIT Press, 2008), pp. vi+329, £39.95, £16.95 pb.

ROGERIO PALHARES DE ARAUJO

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 209-210
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Christopher Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, Stephen R. Gliessman, David Goodman, and Jonathan Fox (eds.), Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008), pp. xii+390, £43.95, £17.95 pb.

JOHN M. TALBOT

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 211-212
doi:10.1017/S0022216X0800549X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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George J. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration to the United States (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2007), pp. xi+338, $60.00, hb.

DANIEL M. MASTERSON

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 213-214
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005506 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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Books Received

Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 01, February 2009, pp 215-220
doi:10.1017/S0022216X08005518 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 27 Feb 2009
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