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
‘This Mixed Species of Population Will Consume’: Atlantic Expectations about Spanish American Consumers in the Age of Revolutions, 1780–1831 Ana María Otero-Cleves Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 745 – 769 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000312 Published Online on 17 May 2019
Surveying the Lands of Republican Indígenas: Contentious Nineteenth-Century Efforts to Abolish Indigenous Resguardos near Bogotá, Colombia Lina del Castillo Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 771 – 799 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000294 Published Online on 23 May 2019
Zapata's Justice: Land and Water Conflict Resolution in Revolutionary Mexico (1914–16) Helga Baitenmann Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 801 – 828 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000634 Published Online on 10 June 2019
La gran dama: Science Patronage, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican Social Sciences in the 1940s Álvaro Morcillo Laiz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 829 – 854 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000336 Published Online on 23 May 2019
Playing across the Andes: Sports Media and Populism in Argentina and Chile Pedro Acuña Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 855 – 882 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000907 Published Online on 8 July 2019
‘Responsibility of the Great Ones’: How the Organization of American States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis Renata Keller Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 883 – 904 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000300 Published Online on 22 May 2019
The Politics of Violence Reduction: Making and Unmaking the Salvadorean Gang Truce Chris van der Borgh, Wim Savenije Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 905 – 928 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000890 Published Online on 23 August 2019
Reviews
Guillermina del Valle Pavón and Antonio Ibarra (eds.), Redes, corporaciones comerciales y mercados hispanoamericanos en la economía global, siglos XVII–XIX (Mexico City: CONACYT and Instituto Mora, 2017), pp. 278, $20.00, pb. Alejandra Irigoin Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 929 – 931 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001019 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara, Alone at the Altar: Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670–1870 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), pp. xi + 283, £44.75, hb. Mónica Díaz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 931 – 933 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001020 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Stafford Poole, Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797 (Tucson, AZ: Arizona University Press, revised edition, 2017), pp. x + 346, $35.00, pb. Cornelius Conover Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 933 – 935 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001032 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Timo H. Schaefer, Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. x + 243, £75.00, hb. Guy Thomson Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 935 – 937 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001044 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Stephanie J. Smith, The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xiii +275, $29.95, pb. Mary K. Coffey Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 937 – 939 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001056 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Fernanda Vidal Correa, Women in Mexican Politics: A Study of Representation in a Renewed Federal and Democratic State (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. xviii + 122, £49.95, hb. Sonia Hernández Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 939 – 941 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001068 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Akira Saito and Claudia Rosas Laura (eds.), Reducciones: La concentración forzada de las poblaciones indígenas en el Virreinato del Perú (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2017), pp. 678, pb. Noble David Cook Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 941 – 945 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900107X Published Online on 15 November 2019
Thomas F. Love, The Independent Republic of Arequipa: Making Regional Culture in the Andes (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. xxii + 321, £24.99, pb. Íñigo García-Bryce Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 945 – 947 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001081 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Robert S. Jansen, Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 246, $112.50 hb, $37.50 pb. John Crabtree Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 948 – 950 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001093 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Carlos Camacho Arango, El conflicto de Leticia (1932–1933) y los ejércitos de Perú y Colombia (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2016), pp. 515, pb. Lourdes Hurtado Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 950 – 952 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900110X Published Online on 15 November 2019
Federico M. Rossi, The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xxiv + 314, £75.00, hb. Carolina Cepeda Másmela Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 952 – 954 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001111 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Emilio Redondo Carrero, Migrantes y refugiados en la posguerra mundial: La corriente organizada de españoles hacia Argentina, 1946–1962 (Madrid: Silex Ediciones, 2017), pp. 579, pb. Carolina Biernat Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 954 – 956 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001123 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Patricia Acerbi, Street Occupations: Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. xii + 203, £24.99, pb. Sandra C. Mendiola García Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 956 – 958 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001135 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Mieko Nishida, Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2017), pp. xiv + 294, $68.00, hb. Ayumi Takenaka Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 958 – 960 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001147 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Marshall C. Eakin, Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xvii + 327, £23.99, pb. Gustavo Mesquita Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 960 – 962 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001159 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Jaime Amparo Alves, The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), pp. 324, $108.00, $27.00 pb. Kristen Drybread Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 962 – 964 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001160 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Ana L. Mallen and María Pilar García-Guadilla, Venezuela's Polarized Politics: The Paradox of Direct Democracy under Chávez (Boulder, CO, and London: First Forum Press, 2017), pp. ix + 171, £78.50, hb. Steve Ellner Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 964 – 966 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001172 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Alison J. Bruey, Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet's Chile (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), pp. xx + 298, £74.50, hb. Par Engstrom Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 966 – 969 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001184 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Silvia Dutrénit Bielous (ed.), Perforando la impunidad: Historia reciente de los equipos de antropología forense en América Latina (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr José María Luis Mora, and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 2017), pp. 407, pb. Alejandra Beatriz del Carmen Díaz de León Cárdenas Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 969 – 971 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001196 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Javier Valdez Cárdenas, The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017), pp. 314, $19.95, pb. Rodrigo Arteaga Rojas Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 971 – 973 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001202 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Jennifer L. Shoaff, Borders of Visibility: Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2017), pp. xv + 188, $59.95, hb. Sofía Ugarte Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 973 – 975 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001214 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Megan Rivers-Moore, Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. ix + 225, $32.50; £24.50, pb. Erica Lorraine Williams Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 976 – 978 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001226 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Isabel M. Córdova, Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. 234, $29.95, pb. Rosalynn A. Vega Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 978 – 980 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19001238 Published Online on 15 November 2019
Edward King and Joanna Page, Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (London: University College London Press, 2017), pp. xii + 252, £20.00, pb. Mariano Paz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 4, November 2019, pp 980 – 982 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900124X Published Online on 15 November 2019