Journal of Latin American Studies presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in development studies, economics, geography, history, politics and international relations, public policy, sociology and social anthropology. Regular features include articles on contemporary themes, short thematic commentaries on key issues, and an extensive section of book reviews.
Research article
Lynching and the Politics of State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Puebla (1930s–50s) Gema Kloppe-Santamaría Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 499 – 521 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001104 Published Online on 13 February 2019
Against a Continental Threat: Transnational Anti-Communist Networks of the Chilean Right Wing in the 1950s Marcelo Casals Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 523 – 548 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800113X Published Online on 31 January 2019
Culture, Politics and the Cold War: The Sociedad de Escritores de Chile in the 1950s Jorge A. Nállim Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 549 – 571 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000755 Published Online on 4 February 2019
The Dynamics of Latin American Agricultural Production Growth, 1950–2008 Miguel Martín-Retortillo, Vicente Pinilla, Jackeline Velazco, Henry Willebald Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 573 – 605 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001141 Published Online on 23 April 2019
Columbus, Juana and the Politics of the Plaza: Battles over Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires Cheryl Jiménez Frei Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 607 – 638 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001086 Published Online on 11 October 2019
‘Sovereign Parenting’ in Affluent Latin American Neighbourhoods: Race and the Politics of Childcare in Ipanema (Brazil) and El Condado (Puerto Rico) Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 639 – 663 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001074 Published Online on 4 February 2019
Allies and Traitors: Vice-Presidents in Latin America Leiv Marsteintredet, Fredrik Uggla Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 665 – 688 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001098 Published Online on 31 January 2019
Reviews
José Carlos de la Puente Luna, Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018), pp. xii + 345; $29.95; £24.99, pb. Nils Jacobsen Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 689 – 691 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000658 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), pp. xiii + 431, $30.00 hb. Robert C. Schwaller Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 691 – 693 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900066X Published Online on 11 October 2019
Luis Martínez-Fernández, Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2018), pp. xiv + 219, $74.95, hb. Erin Woodruff Stone Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 693 – 695 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000671 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Joshua Simon, The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. x + 276, £22.99, pb. Iván Jaksić Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 695 – 697 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000683 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila, La restauración en la Nueva Granada (1815–1819) (Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2016), pp. 299, pb. Anthony McFarlane Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 697 – 699 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000695 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Marta Irurozqui, Ciudadanos armados de ley: A propósito de la violencia en Bolivia, 1839–1875 (La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editores, 2018), pp. 324, pb. Carmen Soliz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 699 – 701 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000701 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Lina del Castillo, Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2018), pp. xv + 382, pb. – Miruna Achim, From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 327, £24.99, pb. Mark Thurner Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 701 – 704 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000713 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Ori Preuss, Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s–1900s (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 176, £90.00, hb. Nicola Miller Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 704 – 706 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000725 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas (eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 329, $55.00, hb. Michael E. Donoghue Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 706 – 709 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000737 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Toni Pressley-Sanon, Istwa across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. xiv + 195, $74.95, hb. Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 709 – 711 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000749 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Tom Long, Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xi + 260, £19.99, pb. Gene E. Bigler Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 711 – 713 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000750 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Marc Becker, The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xii + 332, $94.95, $26.95, pb and E-book; £79.00, £21.99, pb and E-book. Catherine Conaghan Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 713 – 715 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000762 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Samuel Handlin, State Crisis in Fragile Democracies: Polarization and Political Regimes in South America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 321, £75.00, hb. Matthew Rhodes-Purdy Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 715 – 717 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000774 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Liisa L. North and Timothy D. Clark (eds.), Dominant Elites in Latin America: From Neo-Liberalism to the ‘Pink Tide’ (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. xvii + 239, £88.00 hb, £59.20, E-book. Felipe González Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 718 – 721 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000786 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon and François Gélineau, Latin American Elections: Choice and Change (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 248, $70.00, hb. Kenneth Bunker Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 721 – 723 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000798 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Steven Levitsky, James Loxton, Brandon Van Dyck and Jorge I. Domínguez (eds.), Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. xxii + 550, £64.99, hb. Gustavo A. Flores-Macías Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 724 – 726 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000804 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power (eds.), Democratic Brazil Divided (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), pp. xv + 301, $29.95, pb. Edmund Amann Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 726 – 728 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000816 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Peter Wade, Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. x + 266, $99.95, $27.95, pb and E-book; £86.00, £23.99, pb and E-book. Sarah Abel Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 728 – 730 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000828 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo (eds.), Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. 320, $55.00, hb. Sarah Washbrook Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 730 – 732 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900083X Published Online on 11 October 2019
Anna M. Babel, Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 265, $55.00, hb. Rosaleen Howard Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 732 – 734 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000841 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Penelope Anthias, Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 295, £20.99. pb. Jonathan Alderman Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 735 – 736 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000853 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xx + 188, $84.95, $23.95, pb and E-book; £70.00, £19.99, pb and E-book. Kristina Lyons Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 737 – 738 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000865 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Julian Lim, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xv + 302, $32.50, hb. Joanna Dreby Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 738 – 740 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000877 Published Online on 11 October 2019
Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada and Ester E. Hernández (eds.), U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. xi + 242, $30.00, pb. Susan Bibler Coutin Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 3, August 2019, pp 741 – 743 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000889 Published Online on 11 October 2019