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New Books in Latin American Studies

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Brett Hendrickson, “Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo” (NYU Press, 2014)

47 mins; September 17, 2015

Deborah R. Vargas, “Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda” (U of Minnesota Press, 2012)

74 hours 46 mins; September 14, 2015

Louis A Perez Jr, “The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past” (U of North Carolina Press, 2013)

57 mins; August 30, 2015

Laura Isabel Serna, “Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age” (Duke UP, 2014)

76 hours 24 mins; August 17, 2015

William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana” (UNC Press, 2014)

10 mins; July 24, 2015

Megan Threlkeld, “Pan-American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

61 hours 44 mins; July 21, 2015

Carlos Kevin Blanton, “George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration” (Yale UP, 2015)

88 hours 53 mins; July 12, 2015

Ada Ferrer, “Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

45 mins; July 09, 2015

Alejandro Velasco, “Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela” (U of California Press, 2015)

58 mins; June 28, 2015

Geraldo L. Cadava, “Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland” (Harvard UP, 2013)

70 hours 42 mins; June 14, 2015

Rory Carroll, “Comandante: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela” (Penguin Books, 2013)

49 mins; June 09, 2015

Kevin O’Neill, “Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala” (U of California Press, 2015)

50 mins; June 02, 2015

Miriam Pawel, “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” (Bloomsbury Press, 2014)

73 hours 9 mins; May 29, 2015

Barbara Weinstein, “The Color of Modernity: Sao Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2015)

40 mins; May 18, 2015

Alexander Avina, “Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside” (Oxford UP, 2014)

58 mins; May 12, 2015

Rebecca Earle, “The Body of the Conquistador” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

43 mins; May 06, 2015

Ana Marcia Ochoa Gautier, “Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia” (Duke UP, 2014)

33 mins; April 17, 2015

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, “New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849” (Duke UP, 2014)

66 hours 1 min; March 23, 2015

Edward Telles and PERLA, “Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America” (UNC Press, 2014)

43 mins; March 09, 2015

Alina Garcia-Lapuerta, “La Belle Creole” (Chicago Review Press, 2014)

38 mins; February 18, 2015

Erik Ching, “Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940,” (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014)

78 hours 58 mins; February 03, 2015

Charles F. Walker, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” (Harvard UP, 2014)

39 mins; December 23, 2014

Alex Nading, “Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health and the Politics of Entanglement” (University of California Press, 2014)

55 mins; December 18, 2014

Scott Mainwaring and Anibal Perez-Linan, “Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

22 mins; December 15, 2014

Lyman Johnson, “Workshop of Revolution: Plebian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810” (Duke UP, 2011)

58 mins; December 13, 2014

Kathleen Lopez, “Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History” (UNC Press, 2013)

68 hours 13 mins; November 21, 2014

Caterina Pizzigoni, “The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico’s Toluca Valley, 1650-1800” (Stanford UP, 2012)

52 mins; November 13, 2014

Kirsten Weld, “Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala” (Duke UP, 2014)

65 hours 15 mins; November 06, 2014

Marcia Ochoa, “Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela” (Duke UP, 2014)

62 hours 52 mins; October 30, 2014

Gregory Weeks, “Understanding Latin American Politics” (Pearson, 2014)

49 mins; October 08, 2014

Roger Kittleson, “The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil” (University of California Press, 2014) and Joshua Nadel, “FÃºtbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America” (University Press of Florida, 2014)

54 mins; June 24, 2014

Omar Valerio-Jimenez, “River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands” (Duke UP, 2013)

61 hours 55 mins; June 12, 2014

Cymene Howe, “Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua” (Duke UP, 2013)

71 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2014

David Nemer, “Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology” (GSA Editora e Grafica, 2013)

39 mins; June 05, 2014

Daniel Altschuler and Javier Corrales, “The Promise of Participation” (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014)

19 mins; April 21, 2014

Jason Ruiz, “Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire” (University of Texas Press, 2014)

59 mins; April 11, 2014

Miranda Spieler, “Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana” (Harvard University Press, 2012)

56 mins; March 28, 2014

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit (Oxford UP, 2011)

42 mins; March 17, 2014

Jose Angel Hernandez, “Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

61 hours 21 mins; March 06, 2014

Thomas H. Guthrie, “Recognizing Heritage: The Politics of Multiculturalism in New Mexico” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

54 mins; February 20, 2014

Eduardo Kohn, “How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human” (University of California Press, 2013)

71 hours 22 mins; February 09, 2014

Erica Cusi Wortham, “Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State” (Duke University Press, 2013)

45 mins; January 14, 2014

Scott Ickes, “African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil” (University Press of Florida, 2013)

55 mins; December 07, 2013

Ioan Grillo, “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency” (Bloomsbury, 2012)

41 mins; August 19, 2013

Ron Schmidt (et al.), “Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and the American Racial Politics in the Early 21st Century” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)

23 mins; August 05, 2013

Lance R. Blyth, “Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880” (Nebraska UP, 2012)

59 mins; May 02, 2013

Paul Kan, “Cartels at War: Mexico’s Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to US National Security” (Potomac Books, 2012)

51 mins; March 07, 2013

Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (Basic Books, 2012)

58 mins; December 14, 2012

Daniela Bleichmar, “Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

67 hours 0 mins; November 26, 2012

Isaac Campos, “Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs” (UNC Press, 2012)

39 mins; July 31, 2012

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, “Mexico’s Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010” (University of Colorado Press, 2010)

62 hours 8 mins; October 17, 2011

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, "Mexico's Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010" (U Colorado Press, 2010)

60 hours 23 mins; October 17, 2011

Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010)

66 hours 42 mins; March 19, 2010

William Beezley, “Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946” (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

66 hours 46 mins; May 07, 2009

William Beezley, “Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo and Popular Culture” (University of Arizona Press, 2008)

64 hours 6 mins; July 31, 2008

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