Journal of Latin American Studies

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  Año 2008, Vol. 40, Número 1 (February 2008). Texto Completo Ejemplar

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

      Camila Arza

      • Resumen
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      págs. 1-28

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

      Cesar Zucco

      • Resumen
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      págs. 29-49

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

      Thomas Pegram

      • Resumen
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      págs. 51-82

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

      José Antonio Sánchez Román

      • Resumen
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      págs. 83-108

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

      Enrique Guerra Manzo

      • Resumen
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      págs. 109-133

      

  • Book Review

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      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

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      • Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

        Camilla Townsend

        Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006

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      págs. 135-136

      
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      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

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      • Mexican Karismata: The Baroque Vocation of Francisca de los Angeles, 1674–1744

        Ellen Gunnarsdóttir

        University of Nebraska Press, 2005

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      págs. 136-139

      
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      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 Assunçâo

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      • Direitos e justiças no Brasil: Ensaios de história social

        Silvia Hunold Lara (ed. lit.), Joseli Maria Nunes Mendonça (ed. lit.)

        Campinas : Editora Unicamp, 2006

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      págs. 139-141

      
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      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

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      • The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century

        Christopher - Schmidt Nowara

        Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006

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      págs. 141-143

      
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      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

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      • Heroes & Hero Cults in Latin America

        Samuel Brunk (ed. lit.), Ben Fallaw (ed. lit.)

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006

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      págs. 143-145

      
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      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

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      • Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine and the Modern State

        Julia Rodriguez

        Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006

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      págs. 145-147

      
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      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

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      • ons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz & the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855–1920

        Patrick J. McNamara

        Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007

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      págs. 147-149

      
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      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

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      • A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking and Governance in Mexico City, 1750–1920

        Marie Eileen Francois

        Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006

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      págs. 149-151

      
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      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

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      • Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879–1885

        John E. Stealey (ed. lit.)

        Kent : The Kent State University Press, 2006

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      págs. 151-153

      
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      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

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      • Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries

        Kenneth P. Serbin

        Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

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      págs. 153-155

      
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      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

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      • Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives

        Jens R. Hentschke (ed. lit.)

        Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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      págs. 155-157

      
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      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 Conniff

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      • Panama Lost? U.S. Hegemony, Democracy and the Canal

        Peter M. Sánchez

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2007

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      págs. 157-159

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

        Sueann Caulfield (ed. lit.), Sarah C. Chambers (ed. lit.), Lara Putnam (ed. lit.)

        Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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      págs. 159-160

      
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      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

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      • Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America

        Alberto Diaz Cayeros

        Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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      págs. 161-162

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina and International Human Rights

        Thomas C. Wright

        Lanham : Rowman & Littlefied, 2007

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      págs. 162-164

      
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      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

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      • Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America

        J. Patrice McSherry

        Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

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      págs. 164-165

      
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      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

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      • Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile: The Role of Parties in National and Local Policymaking

        Fiona Macaulay

        Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 165-167

      
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      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

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      • Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

        Shannon Speed (ed. lit.), R. Aída Hernández Castillo (ed. lit.), Lynn M. Stephen (ed. lit.)

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006

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      págs. 167-169

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race and Gender in Brazil

        Elisa Larkin Nascimento

        Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007

      • Texto completo

      págs. 170-171

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in Highland Chiapas

        Christine Kovic

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 171-173

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord

        Robert G. Finbow

        Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 173-175

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • Progress Against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program

        Santiago Levy

        Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 175-177

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond

        Sergio Díaz Briquets, Jorge Pérez Pérez López

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007

      • Texto completo

      págs. 177-179

      
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      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 Little

      Es reseña de:

      • Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala and Beyond

        Hilary Kahn

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 179-181

      
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      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

      Es reseña de:

      • Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space

        Sarah England

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 181-183