Journal of Latin American Studies articles from October 1998

Journal of Latin American Studies archives from October 1998

A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels, 1450-1930.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Peter Bakewell (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), PP. xxiii+520, [pounds]55.00, [pounds]16.99 pb; $69.95, $24.95 pb. The task of writing any general history is an unenviable one. This is particularly the case when we are dealing...

The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre (eds.), (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996), pp. xxi+279, $40.00, $14.95 pb. Brazilian journalist Ernesto Senna was one of very few people in late nineteenth-century Brazil who had...

Political Geography of Latin America.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Jonathon R. Barton, (London and New York: Routledge, 1997) pp. xvi+243, [pounds]45.00, [pounds]14.99 pb. Political geography is experiencing a resurgence within geography, partly on the coattails of changes in cultural geography. Modern...

Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Philip Kelly, (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1997), pp. ix+240, $40.00, $17.95 pb. Philip Kelly has filled a major gap in the literature by providing an integral vision of South America's geopolitics. His view is that of an...

Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Elizabeth Joyce and Carlos Malamud (eds.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1997), pp. ix + 243, [pounds]45.00 hb. This book, containing the proceedings of a...

Migrants, Regional Identities and Latin American Cities.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Teofilo Altamirano and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (eds.), (Arlington, VA: The Society for Latin American Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association, 1997), PP. xiii + 180, $15.00 (non-members) pb. This collection of essays (by...

Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: The Quest for Self-Determination.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Hector Diaz Polanco, (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997), pp. xiii + 162, pb. This book is a translation of an important work which summarises some major debates about the relations between, state, nation, autonomy and...

Ferrocarriles y vida economica en Mexico (1850-1950).(Review)
October 1, 1998... Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Paolo Riguzzi (eds.), (Zinacantepec, Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, and Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, 1996), pp. 383, pb. This edited volume addresses several...

Mexico's Hidden Revolution: The Catholic Church in Law and Politics Since 1929.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Peter Lester Reich, (Notre Dame, IN, and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), pp. x+ 193, $28.95 hb. Although Reich claims to reveal a 'hidden revolution' between the Mexican Post-revolutionary State and the Roman Catholic...

The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Vivienne Bennett, (Pittsburgh, PA, and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), pp. xvii+232, [pounds]44.50, [pounds]15.95 pb. Bennett's study of Monterrey's water services during the 1970s and 1980s highlights the technical,...

Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Robin D. Moore, (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), pp. xii+ 320, pb. The historical analysis of conceptions of 'race' in the Hispanic Caribbean offers an interesting avenue for the study of the contradictions and...

La Participacion en Cuba y los Retos del Futuro.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Haroldo Dilla (ed.), (Havana: Centro de Estudios sobre America, 1996), pp. 239, pb For close on forty years the claim of those in power in Cuba, and of their friends and supporters abroad, has been that the Cuban revolution of 1919 led...

La Democracia en Cuba y el Diferendo con los Estados Unidos.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Haroldo Dilla (ed.), (Havana: Centro de Estudios sobre America, 1996), pp. 215 pb. For close on forty years the claim of those in power in Cuba, and of their friends and supporters abroad, has been that the Cuban revolution of 1919 led...

Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997), PP. xix + 295, [pounds]31.50, [pounds]15.50 pb; $35.00, $16.95 pb. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith argues that an understanding of a country's involvement in the drug...

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Alejandro Portes; Carlos Dore-Cabral; Patricia Landolt (eds.), (Baltimore, MD, and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), PP. xvii+260, [pounds]40.00, [pounds]15.00 pb. The Urban Caribbean is an edited book with a difference....

The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Fernando Coronil, (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. xvii+447, $50.00, $19.95 pb. Oil played an all-pervasive role in twentieth-century Venezuela, bringing into being the Magical State referred to in the title...

The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Terry Lynn Karl, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997), pp. xviii+ 342, pb. This is a stimulating and thought provoking book in which the author has tried to explain that single commodity-led economic growth induces...

Juan Fermin de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729-1796.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Richmond F. Brown, (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), pp. vii+298, $34.95 hb. Born in Navarre in 1729, Juan Fermin de Aycinena emigrated to the Indies sometime around 1750. By 1754, Aycinena had settled in Guatemala...

Entre Silencios y Voces: Genero e Historia en America Central (1750-1990).(Review)
October 1, 1998... Eugenia Rodriguez Saenz (ed.), (San Jose, Costa Rica Centro Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Familia, 1997), pp. xvi+ 254, pb. This collection of essays (most of which are chosen from presentations made to the 'Third Congress...

The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Ils Abshagen Leitinger (ed.), (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), pp. xix+366, $49.95, $22.95 pb. This last decade has been vital for the Costa Rican Women's movement. Important legislation on women's rights and...

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Jeffery M. Paige, (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997), PP. xv+432, [pounds]29.95. In the tradition pioneered by Edelberto Torres-Rivas and other Latin American sociologists, Jeffery Paige and Deborah Yashar account...

Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rican and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Deborah J. Yashar, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997), xix+ 319, [pounds]37.50, [pounds]13.95 pb. In the tradition pioneered by Edelberto Torres-Rivas and other Latin American sociologists, Jeffery Paige and Deborah Yashar...

The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Leigh Binford, (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1996), pp. xix + 263, $45.00, $19.95 pb. In December 1981, nearly a year after the Salvadorean civil war had begun in earnest, news leaked out of something particularly horrific...

Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador.(Review)
October 1, 1998... James Boyce (ed.), (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 1996), pp. xvii + 359, $49.95. This collection of papers, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, explores the economic difficulties and dilemmas of a country...

Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil.(Review)
October 1, 1998... France Winddance Twine, (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1997), pp. xiii+ 175, $49.00. $17.00 pb. Twine has produced an excellent account of Brazil's 'racial democracy', how it functions and why it continues to...

Technology, Competitiveness and Racial Policy Change: The Case of Brazil.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Jorg Meyer-Stamer, (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, in association with the German Development Institute, 1997), pp. 336, [pounds]24.50 pb. The role of technology in promoting Latin American economic development has received...

Ciudades, Provincias, Estados: Origenes de la Nacion Argentina (1800-1846).(Review)
October 1, 1998... Jose Carlos Chiaramonte, (Buenos Aires: Compania Editora Espasa Calpe; Ariel Historia, 1997), pp. 645, $39.00 pb. This book is the first of a series published by Ariel entitled 'Biblioteca del pensamiento Argentino', which consists of the...

Del estado liberal a la nacion catolica: iglesia y ejercito en los origenes del peronismo, 1930-1943.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Loris Zanatta, (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1996), pp. 413, pb. It is now clear that Argentina between the military interventions of 1930 and 1943 experienced a major cultural and political paradigm shift; that Church...

The Army and Politics in Argentina: 1962-1973, From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Robert A. Potash, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. xv+ 547, [pounds]40.00. The book under review needs no introduction to students of Argentina and its twentieth century history of military-dominated politics. Neither...

Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America: 1977-1984.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Ariel C. Armony, (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997) pp. xxii + 301, $26.00; [pounds]24.95 pb. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Central American tragedy of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Ariel...

Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997), pp. xv+261, [pounds]50.00 hb. As affirmed in the opening lines of this book, many developing societies are undergoing a rapid increase in demographic ageing at a time when the...

Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Kenneth Mills, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. xiii+337, $55.00; [pounds]45.00 hb The publication of these two excellent books will transform our understanding of Andean religion and the impact of Christianity upon...

The Cross and the Serpent: Religious Repression and Resurgence in Colonial Peru.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Nicholas Griffiths, (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), pp. xx + 368, $37.50 hb. The publication of these two excellent books will transform our understanding of Andean religion and the impact of Christianity upon it...

Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Karsten Paerregaard, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997), pp. xi+292, [pounds]34.95, [pounds]14.95 pb. Until relatively recently, the standard explanation by economists of why those living in rural areas chose to migrate to the cities was...

Women and Economic Change: Andean Perspectives.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Ann Miles and Hans Buechler (eds.) (Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, 1997). pp. viii + 102, $10.00 pb. Andean women and men are deeply embedded in the dramatic transformations that characterise peripheral economies in...

Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Karl S. Zimmerer, (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1996), pp. xi + 308, $45.00; [pounds]35.00. Late twentieth-century thinking is restricted by out-dated disciplinary boundaries that increasingly fail to provide adequate...