Journal of Latin American Studies

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  Año 2006, Vol. 38, Número 4. Texto Completo Ejemplar

  • Research Article

    • From Fome Zero to Bolsa Família: Social Policies and Poverty Alleviation under Lula

      Anthony Hall

      • Resumen
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      págs. 689-709

      

    • Grounding Global Justice: International Networks and Domestic Human Rights Accountability in Chile and El Salvador

      Cath Collins

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 711-738

      

    • Institutional Determinants of the Judicialisation of Policy in Brazil and Mexico

      Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Matthew Taylor

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 739-766

      

    • Cracking Down on the Cunhamenas: Renegade Amazonian Traders under Pombaline Reform

      Barbara A. Sommer

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 767-791

      

    • Innocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs?: Spousal Homicides, the Punishment of Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico, 1740s–1820s

      Víctor M. Uribe Urán

      • Resumen
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      págs. 793-828

      

    • Contesting State Multiculturalisms: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Panama

      Lynne Horton

      • Resumen
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      págs. 829-858

      

  • Reviews

    • Alan Knight and Wil Pansters (eds.), Caciquismo in Twentieth-Century Mexico (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 2006), pp. x+409, £35.00, £17.95 pb; €45.00, €24.95 pb; $65.00, $28.95 pb.

      Ben Fallaw

      Es reseña de:

      • Caciquismo in Twentieth-Century Mexico

        Alan Knight (ed. lit.), Wil Pansters (ed. lit.)

        London : University of London Press, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 859-861

      

    • Javier Santiso, Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (Cambridge, MS and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006), pp. xix+250, £18.95, hb. Ricardo Ffrench-Davis (ed.), Seeking Growth under Financial Volatility (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. xix+227, £55.00, hb.

      Victor Bulmer-Thomas

      Es reseña de:

      • Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers

        Javier Santiso

        Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

      • Seeking Growth under Financial Volatility

        Ricardo Ffrench Davis (ed. lit.)

        Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 861-862

      

    • Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jorge F. Pérez-López, Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons and Transition Policies (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. xx+223, $59.95, hb. Jorge F. Pérez-López and José Alvarez (eds.), Reiventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), pp. xxv+323, £17.99, pb. Archibald R. M. Ritter (ed.), The Cuban Economy (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), pp. xi+248, $49.95, hb.

      Claes Brundenius

      Es reseña de:

      • Cuba's aborted reform: socioeconomic effects, international comparisons, and transition policies

        Carmelo Mesa Lago, Jorge F. Pérez López

        University Press of Florida, 2005. ISBN 0-8130-2868-X

      • Reiventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry

        Jorge F. Pérez López (ed. lit.), José Álvarez (ed. lit.)

        Lanham : Lexington Books, 2005

      • The Cuban Economy

        Archibald R. M. Ritter (ed. lit.)

        Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004

      • Texto completo

      págs. 863-865

      

    • Kirwin R. Shaffer, Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. xi+279, $59.95, hb.

      Rebecca Condron

      Es reseña de:

      • Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba

        Kirwin R. Shaffer

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 865-867

      

    • Lydia Chávez (ed.), Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. x+253, £14.95, pb.

      Antoni Kapcia

      Es reseña de:

      • Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century

        Lydia Chávez (ed. lit.)

        Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 867-868

      

    • Consuelo Cruz, Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. xvii+281, $80.00; £45.00

      James Mahoney

      Es reseña de:

      • Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics

        Consuelo Cruz

        New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 869-870

      

    • Kevin Casas-Zamora, Paying For Democracy: Political Finance And State Funding For Parties (Colchester, ECPR Press, 2005), pp. xii+290, €31.00, pb.

      Rodolfo Cerdas Cruz

      Es reseña de:

      • Paying For Democracy: Political Finance And State Funding For Parties

        Kevin Casas Zamora

        Colchester : ECPR Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 870-872

      

    • Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida (eds.), Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), pp. xvi+215, $65.00, hb.

      Marta Peixoto

      Es reseña de:

      • Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States

        Marshall C. Eakin (ed. lit.), Paulo Roberto De Almeida (ed. lit.)

        Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 872-874

      

    • Willem Assies, Marco A. Calderón and Ton Salman (eds.), Citizenship, Political Culture and State Transformation in Latin America (Amsterdam: Dutch University Press and Zamora, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2005), pp. vii+453, €36.50, pb.

      Shannan Mattiace

      Es reseña de:

      • Citizenship, Political Culture and State Transformation in Latin America

        Willem Assies (ed. lit.), Marco A. Calderón (ed. lit.), Ton Salman (ed. lit.)

        Amsterdam : Dutch University Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 874-878

      

    • Emilio Kourí, A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico (Stanford, CA: University of Stanford Press, 2004), pp. xiii+389, $60.00; £40.95, hb.

      Michael T. Ducey

      Es reseña de:

      • A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico

        Emilio Kourí

        Stanford : University of Stanford Press, 2004

      • Texto completo

      págs. 878-880

      

    • Gastón R. Gordillo, Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinian Chaco (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. xviii+304, £69.00, £16.95 pb.

      Arnd Schneider

      Es reseña de:

      • Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinian Chaco

        Gastón R. Gordillo

        Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 880-881

      

    • Harold A. Trinkunas, Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press: 2005), pp. xiv+297, $59.95, $24.95 pb.

      Steve Ellner

      Es reseña de:

      • Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective

        Harold A. Trinkunas

        Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 881-883

      

    • John A. Adams, Jr., Bordering the Future: The Impact of Mexico on the United States (Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 2006), pp. xii+167, $39.95; £22.99, hb.

      Kevin J. Middlebrook

      Es reseña de:

      • Bordering the Future: The Impact of Mexico on the United States

        John A. Adams Jr.

        Westport : Praeger, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 883-884

      

    • Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004), pp. xlv+438, $64.50, $29.50 pb; £43.00, £20.00 pb.

      Stephen G. Baines

      Es reseña de:

      • Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People

        Irving Goldman

        New York : Columbia University Press, 2004

      • Texto completo

      págs. 884-886

      

    • Samiri Hernández Hiraldo, Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006), pp. xviii+289, $55.00, hb.

      Jorge Duany

      Es reseña de:

      • Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience

        Samiri Hernández Hiraldo

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006

      • Texto completo

      págs. 886-888

      

    • Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. xii+185, $59.95, hb.

      Martin Holbraad

      Es reseña de:

      • Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications

        Mary Ann Clark

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 888-889

      

    • Sabine Hyland, The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S. J. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2003), pp. xii+269, $30.00, $18.95 pb; £17.00, pb.

      Gabriela Ramos

      • Texto completo

      págs. 890-891

      

    • Jay Kinsbruner, The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. xiii+182, $40.00, $18.95 pb.

      John E. Kicza

      Es reseña de:

      • The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism

        Jay Kinsbruner

        Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 891-893

      

    • Luz María Méndez Beltrán, La exportación minera en Chile, 1800–1840: un estudio de historia económica y social en la transición de la Colonia a la República (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2005), pp. 216, pb.

      Steven Saul Volk

      Es reseña de:

      • La exportación minera en Chile, 1800–1840: un estudio de historia económica y social en la transición de la Colonia a la República

        Luz María Méndez Beltrán

        Santiago de Chile : Editorial Universitaria, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 893-894

      

    • Barbara Potthast and Sandra Carreras (eds.), Entre la familia, la sociedad y el Estado: niños y jóvenes en América Latina (siglos XIX–XX) (Frankfurt: Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, 2005), pp. 403, €36.00, pb.

      Claudia Agostoni

      Es reseña de:

      • Entre la familia, la sociedad y el Estado. Niños y jóvenes en América Latina (siglos XIX-XX).

        Sandra (eds.) Carreras, Bárbara Potthast

        Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, S.L.. ISBN 84-8489-209-3

      • Texto completo

      págs. 895-896

      

    • Teresa Prados-Torreira, Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. xii+185, $59.95, hb.

      Jean Stubbs

      Es reseña de:

      • Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

        Teresa Prados Torreira

        Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 896-898

      

    • Graciela Batticuore, Klaus Gallo and Jorge Myers (eds.), Resonancias románticas: ensayos sobre historia de la cultura argentina (1820–1890) (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2005), pp. 307, pb.

      Jason Wilson

      Es reseña de:

      • Resonancias románticas: ensayos sobre historia de la cultura argentina (1820–1890)

        Graciela Batticuore (ed. lit.), Klaus Gallo (ed. lit.), Jorge Myers (ed. lit.)

        Buenos Aires : Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 898-899

      

    • Benedicte Bull, Aid, Power and Privatization: The Politics of Telecommunication Reform in Central America (Cheltenham, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2005), pp. xiii+222, £55.00, hb.

      Rodolfo Cerdas Cruz

      Es reseña de:

      • Aid, Power and Privatization: The Politics of Telecommunication Reform in Central America

        Benedicte Bull

        Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

      • Texto completo

      págs. 900-901

      

    • Jorma Ahvenainen, The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War (Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004), pp. 427, pb.

      Robert G. Greenhill

      Es reseña de:

      • The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War

        Jorma Ahvenainen

        Helsinki : Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004

      • Texto completo

      págs. 901-902