Journal of Latin American Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Latin American Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve-Zanatti and Marcelo Bucheli (eds.), Historia empresarial en América Latina: Temas, debates y problemas (Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, and Lima: Universidad del Pacífi9
Javier Auyero (ed.), Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America University of Texas Press, 2024, pp. 2745
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Communist Disinformation Campaigns and the Latin American Cold War of the 1960s: The Case of the Uruguayan Newspaper Época4
Elisabeth Jay Friedman (ed.), Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 330, $104.95 hb, $27.954
The Intersection of Brazil's Racial Ideology and African Foreign Policy: The Geisel Administration at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC’77)4
Forging Mixtec Identity in the Mexican Metropolis: Race, Indigenismo and Mixtec Migrant Associations in Mexico City, 1940−703
Ricardo Caro Cárdenas, Demonios encarnados: Izquierda, campesinado y lucha armada en Huancavelica (Lima: La Siniestra Ensayos, Estación La Cultura, 2021), 282 pp. - Valérie Robin Azevedo, Los silencio3
Kathleen M. McIntyre, Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. xvi + 277, $69.50 hb.3
La Pata de Cabra, Satire and Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century Mexico City3
Financing a Revolution: The Impact of Bolívar's British Networks in the Independence of Colombia3
Piero Gleijeses, America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), vii + 379 pp.2
Kelly Bauer, Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), ix + 179 pp.2
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020), pp. xv + 359, £25.99, pb.2
Kathleen M. Millar, Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. 248, $99.95, $25.95 hb and pb.2
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Susana Sosenski, Robachicos: Historia del secuestro infantil en México (1900–1960) (Mexico City: Grano de Sal/UNAM, 2021), pp. 277, 330 pesos, pb.2
Jack Webb, Roderick Westmaas, María del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam (eds.), Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, Institute of L2
Manuel R. Cuellar, Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2022), 372 pp.2
Erika Denise Edwards, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 168, $54.95 hb and E-book2
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Gabriel Ondetti, Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 321
The Social Dynamics of Violence and Respect: State, Crime and Church in a Brazilian Favela1
Gerardo L. Munck and Juan Pablo Luna, Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. xxxii + 6161
Gilberto Nascimento, O Reino: A história de Edir Macedo e uma radiografia da Igreja Universal (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2019), pp. 384, $30.59 pb.1
Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 234, $34.95; £27.00, pb.1
Maximilian Viatori and Héctor Bombiella, Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2019), pp. 228, $50.00 hb.1
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Authoritarian Inheritance, Political Conflict and Conservative Party Institutionalisation: The Cases of Chile and Brazil1
The Living Legacies of Slavery: Racism and Racial Acrobatics in North-East Brazilian Puppet Play, 1940–801
Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly, Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021), pp. 288, 1
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. x + 211, £69.99 hb, £55.99 E-book1
Cuba, Soviet Oil, and the Sanctions that Never Were: An Archival Investigation of Socialist Relations1
Juan Pablo Scarfi, The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 280, £71.00, hb.1
Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the FARC's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference1
Vanni Pettinà, A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War, translated by Quentin Pope University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xx + 1981
Democrats’ Mistakes and the Birth of Authoritarian Rule: Ramón S. Castillo and the Fall of Conservative Democracy in Argentina1
Nina Lakhani, Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet (London: Verso, 2020), pp. 336, £18.99 pb.1
Kimberly Theidon, Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2022), pp. 128, $22.95 pb.1
Kristin M. S. Bezio and George R. Goethals (eds.), Leadership, Populism and Resistance (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020), pp. 256, £90.00 hb1
Beatriz Nascimento, The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento, edited and translated by Christen A. Smith, Bethânia N. F. Gomes and Archie Davies Princeton Universit0
Dylan Vernon, Political Clientelism and Democracy in Belize: From My Hand to Yours (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2022), xvi + 299 pp.0
Diego Esparza, Policing and Politics in Latin America: When Law Enforcement Breaks the Law Lynne Riener, 2023, x + 173 pp.0
Agnes Gehbald, A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 3740
Mining Boom and Contentious Politics across Central America: Elites, Movements and Party Systems0
David Rock, The British in Argentina: Commerce, Settlers and Power, 1800–2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), xxi + 424 pp.0
Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna S. Kassab (eds.), Corruption in the Americas Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 1640
Patricia de Santana Pinho, Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 253, $29.95 pb.0
Jelke Boesten and Lurgio Gavilán, Perros y promos: memoria, violencia y afecto en el Perú posconflicto Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2023, pp. 2580
Jeff Garmany and Anthony W. Pereira, Understanding Contemporary Brazil (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. xiii + 239, £29.99, pb.0
Gisela Zaremberg and Debora Rezende de Almeida, Feminisms in Latin America: Pro-Choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 750
Bonnie A. Lucero, A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019), pp. xv + 268, $54.95, hb and E-book0
David C. LaFevor, Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940 University of New Mexico Press, 2020, pp. 2980
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías (ed.), The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 271, £75.00, hb.0
Elizabeth Henson, Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2019), pp. xxv + 269, $55.00, hb.0
Childhood, Love and Politics: The Montonero ‘Nursery’ in Cuba during the Cold War0
Layers of Indigenous Citizenship: Colonial, Republican and Plurinational Rights in Bolivia0
Hugo Cerón-Anaya, Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 2170
Hillel David Soifer and Alberto Vergara (eds.), Politics after Violence: Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019), pp. viii + 383, $45.00 hb.0
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Sarah Walsh, The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. x + 2340
Erynn Masi de Casanova, Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2019), pp. xi + 174, £20.99 pb.0
Housing and Patrimonial (Property) Violence against Women: The Reproduction of Gender Asset Inequalities in Brazil0
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2018), pp. xix + 0
Chris Alden and Álvaro Méndez, China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2023, pp. 2960
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Flavia Fiorucci and José Bustamante Vismara (eds.), Palabras claves en la historia de la educación argentina (Buenos Aires: UNIPE Editorial Universitaria, 2019), pp. 320, free download, PDF.0
Manuel Balán and Françoise Montambeault (eds.), Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, pp. xxvii + 4430
Chilean-Style Populism: Carlos Ibáñez's Electoral Support Base0
Elizabeth N. Arkush, War, Spectacle, and Politics in the Ancient Andes Cambridge University Press, 2022, xiv + 292 pp.0
Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey (eds.), Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments: Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, pp0
Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Evaluation of Four Decades of Pension Privatization in Latin America, 1980−2020: Promises and Reality (Mexico City: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 2021), pp. 204, pb and E-book.0
Eline van Ommen, Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War University of California Press, 2023, pp. 3120
Salvador Salinas, Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos after Zapata, 1920–1940 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 254, $55.00, hb.0
Mariela Noles Cotito (ed.), Reflexiones sobre el Perú: Más allá del Bicentenario Fondo Editorial, Universidad del Pacífico, 2022, pp. 4680
Growing Up Indio during the Mexican Miracle: Childhood, Race and the Politics of Memory0
Germán Vergara, Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. xii + 3220
Gabriel Vommaro, Conservatives against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective Cambridge University Press, 2023, 75 pp.0
Shawn Michael Austin, Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay University of New Mexico Press, 2020, pp. xvi + 3650
Lewis Taylor, Gamonales y bandoleros: violencia social y política en Hualgayoc–Cajamarca, 1900–1930 (2nd edition) Lluvia Editores, 2023, pp. 2940
Courtney J. Campbell, Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924–1968 University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. ix + 301 pp.0
Isabel Story, Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay Lexington, 2020, pp. xiii + 3310
Family Canon: The Politics of Family during the Last Civic-Military Dictatorship in Argentina, 1976–830
Steve Ellner (ed.), Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), pp. vi + 355, £24.95 pb.0
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Benjamin A. Cowan, Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States and the Creation of the Religious Right (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021), pp. 304, $95.00 0
Claudia Stern W., Entre el cielo y el suelo: Las identidades elásticas de las clases medias (Santiago de Chile, 1932–1962) (Santiago de Chile: RiL Editores, 2021), pp. 486, $24.00 pb0
Thomas Fischer, Romy Köhler and Stefan Reith (eds.), Fútbol y sociedad en América Latina (Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2021), pp. 506, €44.00 pb.0
David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford (eds.), Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2022), 317 pp.0
The Counter-Revolution's Patron: Rafael Trujillo versus Venezuela's Acción Democrática Governments, 1945–80
Lillian Guerra, Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1958 (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2018), pp. 370, $40.000
Christina Heatherton, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution University of California Press, 2022, pp. x + 3110
The Criminal Governance of Tourism: Extortion and Intimacy in Medellín0
Robert I. Rotberg (ed.), Corruption in Latin America: How Politicians and Corporations Steal from Citizens (New York: Springer International, 2019), pp. xiv + 320, $139.99 hb; E-book.0
Spatial Projects of Forgetting: Razing the Remedies Church and Museum to the Enslaved in São Paulo's ‘Black Zone’, 1930s–1940s0
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Margaret Chowning, Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 Princeton University Press, 2023, xiv + 362 pp.0
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Andreas E. Feldmann and Juan Pablo Luna, Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 890
Pedro A. G. dos Santos and Farida Jalalzai, Women's Empowerment and Disempowerment in Brazil: The Rise and Fall of President Dilma Rousseff (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021), pp. 212, 0
Ingrid Bleynat, Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021), 264 pp.0
John Tutino, Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), pp. xxiv + 296, £32.50, pb0
Rachel Nolan, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala Harvard University Press, 2024, pp. xxiii + 2880
Shannon Speed, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), pp. 163, $27.95 pb0
Véronique Boyer, The Amazonian Puzzle: Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations (trans. Precious Brown) Berghahn Books, 2024, pp. xiii + 1310
Patricio Simonetto, El dinero no es todo: Compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2019), pp. 244, $23.97 pb.0
Helen Gyger, Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. xvii + 438, $45.00, hb0
Teresa A. Velásquez, Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador University of Arizona Press, 2022, xx + 264 pp.0
Tenuous Pacts and Multiparty Coalitions: The Politics of Presidential Impeachment in Latin America0
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The Pluri-Extractivist State: Regional Autonomy and the Limits of Indigenous Representation in Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province0
Rachel Schmidt, Framing a Revolution: Narrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War Cambridge University Press, 2023, xxii + 302 pp.0
The Resort to Emergency Policing to Control Gang Violence in Jamaica: Making the Exception the Rule0
Amos Megged, Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750 (Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2020), pp. xiv + 315, $100 hb, $35.95 pb, $29.95 E-book0
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Memory Scripts and Life History in the Shadow of Brazil's Dictatorship0
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On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed0
Timothy W. Lorek, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia University of North Carolina Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 3170
Jessica A. J. Rich, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xv + 240, £75.00 hb.0
Julián's Choice: Of Jaguar-Shamans and the Sacrifices Made forProgresoin Peru's Extractive Frontier0
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Joanna Crow, Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America (1900–1950) Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. xiv + 3710
Lowell Gudmundson, Costa Rica after Coffee: The Co-Op Era in History and Memory Louisiana State University Press, 2021, pp. xxii + 1410
La Hora de la Salsa: Nicolás Maduro and the Political Dimensions of Salsa in Venezuela0
Dictatorships, Coffee and Bananas: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1871−19110
Philip Fehling and Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (eds.), Taxation and Inequality in Latin America: New Perspectives on Political Economy and Tax Regimes Routledge, 2023, 303 pp.0
The Transition to Free Labour in Puerto Rico: Class, Race and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century Colony0
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Contemporary State Building: Elite Taxation and Public Safety in Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. xiv + 2050
Participatory Democracy, Democratic Education, and Women0
Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (eds.), Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), pp. 324, £120.00, £34.99 pb, £31.49 E0
Gabriel Hetland, Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America's Left Turn Columbia University Press, 2023, pp. 3070
Japhy Wilson, Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon Yale University Press, 2021, pp. xiv + 3040
Annette Idler, Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xxiii + 466, £22.99, pb.0
Carmen Kordick, The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2019), pp. xx + 268, $49.95 hb.0
Juan Carlos Yáñez Andrade, El tiempo domesticado, Chile 1900–1950: Trabajo, cultura y tiempo libre en la configuración de las identidades laborales (Valparaíso: América en Movimiento, 2020), pp. 176, 0
Javier Corrales, Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism Brookings Institution Press, 2023, pp. xiv + 2420
Henry A. Dietz, Population Growth, Social Segregation, and Voting Behavior in Lima, Peru, 1940–2016 (Notre Dame, IL: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), pp. viii + 227, $60.00 hb.0
Andrea Martínez Baracs (trans. Hank Heifetz), An Irish Rebel in New Spain: The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021), pp.0
The Nation on the Corners: The Politics of Street-Naming in Lima during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century0
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Jaime M. Pensado, Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico University of California Press, 2023, pp. xvi + 3570
Bradley Skopyk, Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico's Little Ice Age University of Arizona Press, 2020, pp. xv + 3130
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 212, $85.00 h0
Sarah Foss, On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xvi + 3160
Amazonian Atlantic: Cacao, Colonial Expansion and Indigenous Labour in the Portuguese Amazon Region (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)0
To Celia, on her retirement0
Claudia Brosseder, Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023, pp. 4000
Sarah Zukerman Daly, Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. vii + 3830
Jihye Kim, From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop: Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Argentine Garment Industry (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), 200 pp.0
Political Polarisation in Uruguay in the Early 1960s: The Role of Luis Batlle Berres and Lista 150
The Nexus between Protest and Electoral Participation: Explaining Chile's Exceptionalism0
The State's Developmentalist Illusion and the Origins of Illegal Coca Cultivation in Peru's Alto Huallaga Valley (1960–80)0
Rajeshwari Dutt, Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847–1901 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xiii + 185, £75.00 hb.0
A New Kind of Vanguard: Cuban−North Korean Discourse on Revolutionary Strategy for the Global South in the 1960s0
Debunking the Myth of Nicaraguan Exceptionalism: Crime, Drugs and the Political Economy of Violence in a ‘Narco-state’0
Eveline Dürr and Juliane Müller (eds.), The Popular Economy in Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019), pp. ix + 204, £60.00 hb.0
Michelle D. Bonner, Tough on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), pp. xi + 204, $40.00, hb.0
When Informality Matters: Participatory Security Reform and Mechanisms of Social Embeddedness in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico0
Lorenza B. Fontana, Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xix + 2420
Elizabeth Shesko, Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, vii + 252 pp.0
Micha Rahder, An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2020), pp. 316, $27.95, pb.0
Samuel P. Huntington, Brazilian ‘Decompression’ and Democracy0
After the Gang: Desistance, Violence and Occupational Options in Nicaragua0
Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2018), pp. xii + 291, $99.95, $26.95 pb and E-book; £77.00, £20.0
‘Males are Undeserving; Females are Ideal Victims’: Gender Bias Hides Demand in Human-Smuggling Networks0
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Anna Cant, Land without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021), pp. 248, $55.00, hb.0
Money Doctors and Latin American Central Banks at the Onset of the Great Depression0
Lindsay Mayka, Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. xviii + 304, £75.00 hb.0
Stephen G. Rabe, Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2020), ix + 316 pp.0
Carlos Solar, Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America: States, Threats, and Alliances State University of New York Press, 2023, pp. 3520
Evangelical Christianity as Infrastructure in Brazil's Penal System0
Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic: From Citizen to Foreigner (London and New York: Anthem Press, 2021), pp. 146, £80.00 hb, £19.99 pb; $125.00 hb, $26.990
Pilar M. Herr, Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019), pp. viii + 155, $65.00 hb; E-Book.0
Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering, The Ambivalent State: Police–Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 240, $29.95, pb.0
Turning Over a New Leaf: A Subnational Analysis of ‘Coca Yes, Cocaine No’ in Bolivia0
Hernán Flom, The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2023, xvi + 254 pp.0
Conditional Freedoms: Non-State Labour in Cuba between Institutional Delegitimisation and Civic Recognition0
Helen Yaffe, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World Yale University Press, 2020, vii + 363 pp.0
Foreign Trade Policy in the Argentine Automotive Industry: An Analysis of the Business Power of its Actors and their Influence over the State (2002–15)0
Making Sense of Electoral Violence: The Narrative Frame of Organised Crime in Mexico0
Rachel A. Schwartz, Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xxii + 3100
Pascal Lupien, Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age University of North Carolina Press, 2023, pp. xii + 3720
Joshua Savala, Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), 248 pp.0
Claudio Katz, Dependency Theory after Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought Brill, 2022, pp. 2840
James Lockhart, Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), pp. 282, £19.99 pb.0
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xvi + 3080
Erika Robb Larkins, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. viii + 1890
The Devil and Democracy in the Global South: Hugo Chávez's Transnational Populism0
Tiffany D. Barnes, Yann P. Kerevel and Gregory W. Saxton, Working Class Inclusion: Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. x + 2550
Natalia Milanesio, ¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), x + 326 pp.0
Ernesto Semán, Breve historia del antipopulismo: Los intentos por domesticar a la Argentina plebeya, de 1810 a Macri (Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2021), pp. 280, $AR1,299 pb.0
Noah Oehri, Landscapes of Liberation: Mission and Development in Peru's Southern Highlands, 1958–1988 Leuven University Press, 2023, pp. 2310
Margarita Fajardo, The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), pp. 281, $39.90
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John Tofik Karam, Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), pp. 334, $39.90 pb.0
Shawn William Miller, The Street is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. x + 3450
Perry Anderson, Brazil Apart, 1964–2019 (London and New York: Verso, 2019), pp. xv + 224, £16.99, hb0
Carlos Marichal, El nacimiento de la banca en América Latina: Finanzas y política en el siglo XIX Colegio de México, 2021, pp. 5080
‘The Dagger of Dispossession Will Be Ripped Out’: The Malvinas/Falkland Islands in Argentine Song (1941–82)0
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James W. Fuerst, New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. xii + 322.0
Jessica Lynn Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil University of California Press, 2019, pp. xxi + 3650
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Mestizo Urbanism: Enduring Racial Intersections in Latin American Cities0
Julia J. S. Sarreal, Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation University of California Press, 2023, ix + 375 pp.0
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Unlikely Expropriators: Why Right-Wing Parties Implemented Agrarian Reform in Democratic Brazil0
Matthew M. Taylor, Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. xvii + 3400
Narratives of Authoritarianism in Times of Crisis: Democracy and Limitations of Progressive Politics in Plurinational Bolivia0
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Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. x + 3260
Simón Escoffier, Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile Cambridge University Press, 2023, xix + 250 pp.0
The Collaboration of the Argentine Military Dictatorship with the Governments of Guatemala and Honduras in their ‘Fight against Subversion’ (1980–3)0
Necrotaboos and Political Afterlives in Social Justice Activism during Mexico's Day of the Dead0
Everyday Politics of Mobility: Translocal Livelihoods and Illegalisation in the Global South0
Carlos Contreras Carranza, Historia económica del Perú: Desde la conquista española hasta el presente Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2022, pp. 4790
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The Promise and Peril of the Popular: Interpretations of Nineteenth-Century Popular Liberalism in Mexico0
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Rose J. Spalding, Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 3080
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Identity, Conflict and Discourse: Understanding Military Contestation in Brazil0
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Maximo G. Martinez, Sojourners in the Capital of the World: Garifuna Immigrants Fordham University Press, 2023, pp. vii + 2590
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Mateo Jarquín, The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History University of North Carolina Press, 2024, pp. xvii + 3140
María Bjerg, Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 175, £85.00 hb; E-book.0
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James Loxton, Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xxi + 279, £47.99 hb.0
Charisma's Birth from the Bottom Up: Lula, ABC's Metalworkers’ Strikes and the Social History of Brazilian Politics0
Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall, Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town (Louisville, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2019), pp. xiv + 302, $76.00, hb.0
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