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, reviews@cedla.nl.
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Aidoo, Lamonte, Slavery Unseen; Sex, Power and Violence in Brazilian History, Duke University Press, 2018, 258 pp., ISBN 9780822371298, Pb.
Borge, Jason, Tropical Riffs; Latin America & the Politics of Jazz, Duke University Press, 2018, 200 pp., ISBN 9780822369905, Pb.
Delgado Moya, Sergio, Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil, University of Texas Press, 2017, 285 pp., ISBN 9781477314357, Pb.
Deusen, Nancy E. Van, Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima, Duke University Press, 2018, 272 pp., ISBN 9780822369950, Pb.
Erin Salahub, Jennifer, Gottsbacher, Markus and De Boer, John (eds.), Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South: Towards Safe and Inclusive Cities, Routledge, 2018, 219 pp., ISBN: 9780815368397, Pb.
Jiménez, Luis F, Migrants and Political Change in Latin America, University of Florida Press, 2018, 199 pp., ISBN 9781683400370, 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.
List, George & Holmes, John, et. Al (eds.), Animal Tales from the Caribbean, Indiana University Press, 2017, 258 pp., ISBN 101780238398, Pb.
López-Durán, Fabiola, Eugenics in the Garden; Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity, University of Texas Press, 2018, 296 pp., ISBN 9781477314968, Pb.
Loustaunau, E. & Shaw, L.E., Telling Migrant Stories; Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film, University of Florida Press, 2018, 339 pp., ISBN 9781683400233, Hc.
Love, Thomas F., The Independent Republic of Arequipa; Making Regional Culture in the Andes, University of Texas Press, 2017, 275 pp., ISBN 9781477314593, Pb.
Martínez-Fernández, Luis, Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba, University of Florida Press, 2018, 220 pp., ISBN 9781683400325, Hc.
Millar, Kathleen M., Reclaiming the Discarded; Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump, Duke University Press, 2018, 205 pp., ISBN 9780822370505, Pb.
Mundy, Barbara E., The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan; The Life of Mexico City, University of Texas Press, 2015, first paperback printing in 2018, 235 pp., ISBN 9781477317136, Pb.
Naish, Paul D., Slavery and Silence; Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 283 pp., ISBN 9780812249453, Hc.
Navitski, Rielle, Public Spectacles of Violence; Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil, Duke University Press, 2017, 344 pp., ISBN9780822369752, Pb.
Sanabria, Emilia, Plastic Bodies; Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil, Duke University Press, 2016, 264 pp., ISBN9780822361619, Pb.
Seman, Ernesto, Ambassadors of the Working Class; Argentina’s International Labor Activists & Cold War Democracy in the America’s, Duke University Press, 2017, 328 pp., ISBN 9780822369059, Pb.
Siegel, Peter E. (ed.), Island Historical Ecology; Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean, Berghahn Books, 2018, 366 pp., ISBN 9781785337635, Hb.
Turner, Sasha, Contested Bodies; Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 328 pp. , ISBN 9780253029379, Pb.
Vitz, Matthew, A City On A Lake; Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City, Duke University Press, 2018, 337 pp., ISBN 9780822370406, Pb.