Books for Review | Libros para reseña
The following publications have been selected for review. If you would like to review one of these publications, please contact Book Review Editor Dr Christien Klaufus and her assistant Carmen Giménez Solar, reviews@cedla.nl.
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Aching, Gerard, Freedom from Liberation; Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2015, 272 pp., ISBN 9780253016935, Hc.
Aguirre, Carlos and Charles F. Walker (Eds.), The Lima Reader; History, Culture, Politics, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 296 pp., ISBN 9780822363378, Pb.
Alvarez, Sonia E., et al. (Eds.), Beyond Civil Society; Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 408 pp., ISBN 9780822363255, Pb.
Bassi, Ernesto, An Aqueous Territory; Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 360 pp., ISBN 9780822362401, Pb.
Blackmore, Lisa, Spectacular Modernity; Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, 240 pp., ISBN 9780822964384, Pb.
Blanco Rodriguez Juan Andrés et al., El Legado de España en Cuba, Madrid, Silex Ediciones, 2015, 288 pp., ISBN9788477379195, Pb.
Bresser-Pereira Luiz Carlos, The Political Construction of Brazil; Society, Economy and State Since Independence, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017, 419 pp., ISBN 781626373075, Hc.
Cañizares-Esguera, Jorge, et al., The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 384 pp. , ISBN 9780812223767, Pb.
Carter, Miguel (Ed.), Challenging social Inequality; the Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 544 pp., ISBN 9780822351863, Pb.
Catalá Carrasco, Jorge, et al. (Eds.), Comics & Memory in Latin America, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, 240 pp., ISBN 9780822964247, Pb.
Close, David, Nicaragua; Navigating the Politics of Democracy, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016, 224 pp., ISBN 9781626374355, Hc.
Drinot, Paulo, Peru in Theory, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 265 pp., ISBN 9781137455253, Hc.
Escobar Ohmstede, Antonio, et al., La Desamortización Civil desde Perspectivas Plurales, Mexico City, Colegio de México, 2017, 551 pp., ISBN 9786076281185, Pb.
Falcón, Romana & Raymond Buve (Eds.), Pueblos en Tiempos de Guerra; La Formación de la Nación en Mexico, Argentina y Brasil (1800-1920), Cuidad de México, El Colegio de México, 2017, 242 pp., ISBN 9786076281307, Pb.
Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, et al., The Colombia Reader; History, Culture, Politics, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 648 pp., ISBN 9780822362289, Pb.
Fiol-Matta, Lucia, The Great Woman Singer; Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp., ISBN 9780822362937, Pb.
Flores, Ruben, Backroads Pragmatists; Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 360 pp. , ISBN 9780812246209, Hc.
Force, Pierre, Wealth and Disaster; Atlantic Migrations from Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, 256 pp., ISBN 9781421421285, Hc.
Fraga, Walter, Crossroads of Freedom; Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil 1870-1910, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 344 pp., ISBN 9780822360902, Pb.
Gottsbacher, Markus & John de Boer, Vulnerabilidad y Violencia en América Latina y el Caribe, México D.F., Grupo Editorial Siglo XXI, 2016, 432 pp., ISBN 9786070307447, Pb.
Groesen, Michiel van, Amsterdam’s Atlantic; Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 288 pp. , ISBN 9780812248661, Hc.
Hanna, Monica, et al.(Eds.), Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 464 pp., ISBN 9780822360339, Pb.
Hill, Robert (Ed.), The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers; The Caribbean Diaspora, 1921-1922, Volume XIII, London, Duke University Press, 2016, 472 pp., ISBN 9780822374282, Hc.
Karush, Matthew B., Musicians in Transit; Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 280 pp., ISBN 9780822362364, Pb.
Kazanjian, David, The Brink of Freedom; Improvising life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 336 pp., ISBN 9780822361701, Pb.
Kockelman, Paul, The Chicken and the Quetzal; Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 208 pp. ISBN 9780822360728, Pb.
Kruijt, Dirk, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America; An oral History, London, Zed Books, 2016, 300 pp., ISBN 9781783608027, Pb.
Kyle, Brett J., Recycling Dictators in Latin American Elections; Legacies of Military Rule, Boulder & London, First Forum Press, 2016, 267 pp., ISBN 9781626374379, Hc.
Llamojha Mitma, Manuel et al., Now Peru is Mine; the Life and Times of a Campesino Activist, London, Duke University Press, 2016, 256 pp., ISBN 9780822362388, Pb.
Navitski, Rielle, Public Spectacles of Violence; Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 344 pp., ISBN 9780822369752, Pb.
Randall, Margaret, Exploring Global Revolution; Cuba’s Global Solidarity, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 280 pp., ISBN 9780822369042, Pb.
Sanabria, Emilia, Plastic Bodies; Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2016, 264 pp., ISBN 9780822361619, Pb.
Scarzanella, Eugenia, Abril; Un Editor italiano en Buenos Aires, de Perón a Videla, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016, 278 pp., ISBN 9789877191097, Pb.
Schuster, Caroline E., Social Collateral; Women and Microfinance in Paraguay’s Smuggling Economy, Oakland, University of California Press, 2015, 288 pp., ISBN 9780520287051, Pb.
Turner, Sasha, Contested Bodies; Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 328 pp. , ISBN 9780812249187, Hc.
Weinstein, Barbara, The Color of Modernity; Saõ Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 476 pp., ISBN 9780822357773, Pb.