Research article

First Impressions: Henry George Ward's Mexico in 1827
WILL FOWLER
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 265 – 289
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1700075X Published Online on 12 September 2017

Delineating the Peace: Marking Oaxaca's State Boundaries, 1856–1912
DANIEL NEWCOMER
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 291 – 321
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17000426 Published Online on 7 April 2017

General Alberto Enríquez Gallo: Soldier, Populist, Leftist
MARC BECKER
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 323 – 353
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1700116X Published Online on 3 October 2017

The Business of Governing: Corruption and Informal Politics in Mexico City's Markets, 1946–1958
INGRID BLEYNAT
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 355 – 381
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17000785 Published Online on 14 August 2017

Itaipu's Forgotten History: The 1965 Brazil–Paraguay Border Crisis and the New Geopolitics of the Southern Cone
JACOB BLANC
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 383 – 409
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17000049 Published Online on 20 March 2017

Land Reform, Historical Consciousness and Indigenous Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Ecuador
SERGIO MIGUEL HUARCAYA
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 411 – 440
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001146 Published Online on 25 September 2017

Sidestepping the State: Practices of Social Service Commodification among Nicaraguans in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
CAITLIN E. FOURATT, KOEN VOOREND
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 441 – 468
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X17001195 Published Online on 16 October 2017

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John Tutino (ed.), New Countries, Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. x + 397, £86.00, £24.99 pb and E-Book; $99.95, $28.95 pb and E-book.
GUY THOMSON
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 469 – 472
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000019 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs and James Sidbury (eds.), The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 371, $24.95 pb.
YESENIA BARRAGAN
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 472 – 474
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000020 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Fernando Purcell, ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848–1880 (Mexico City and Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), pp. 251, pb.
ÁNGELA VERGARA
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 474 – 475
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000032 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Walter Fraga, Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870–1910 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xxviii + 313, £70.00, £19.99 pb.
ANADELIA A. ROMO
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 476 – 477
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000044 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Gilberto Hochman, The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889–1930 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 216, $95.00, $25.00 pb.
RAUL NECOCHEA LOPEZ
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 477 – 479
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000056 Published Online on 13 April 2018

David A. West, Darwin's Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of Fritz Müller (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2016), pp. xxii + 316, $79.95 hb.
ANDRÉ LUIS DE LIMA CARVALHO
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 479 – 481
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000068 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Raymond B. Craib, The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. xiii + 271, £22.99 hb.
JULIO PINTO VALLEJOS
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 482 – 483
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800007X Published Online on 13 April 2018

Christine Ehrick, Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930–1950 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. vii + 231, £64.99; $99.99 hb.
CHRISTINE MATHIAS
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 483 – 485
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000081 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Jill Hedges, Evita: The Life of Eva Perón (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017), pp. xiii + 256, £20.00; $30.00 hb.
JULIA BUXTON
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 485 – 487
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000093 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Elena Shtromberg, Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016), pp. ix + 210, $29.95; £20.99 pb.
EDWARD KING
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 487 – 489
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800010X Published Online on 13 April 2018

Héctor Perla Jr., Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion: Revolutionary Deterrence in Asymmetric Conflict (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xxi + 241, £75.00 hb.
HILARY FRANCIS
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 489 – 490
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000111 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Pablo Piccato, A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth and Justice in Mexico (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017), pp. xi + 374, £27.95 pb.
BENJAMIN T. SMITH
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 490 – 492
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000123 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Carlos Illades, Conflict, Domination and Violence. Episodes in Mexican Social History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017), pp. xxii + 182, $110.00; £78.00 hb.
LUIS HERRAN AVILA
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 492 – 494
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000135 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850–2015 (Langham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016), pp. ix + 221, £54.95 hb.
SARAH WASHBROOK
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 494 – 496
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000147 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015), pp. xi + 222, £19.99 pb.
MIJKE DE WAARDT
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 496 – 498
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000159 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Lesley Gill, A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xiv + 287, £18.99 pb.
JEFFERY R. WEBBER
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 498 – 500
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000160 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. xxi + 319, £70.00, £19.99 pb.
ALEX NADING
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 500 – 502
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000172 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Lucy Earle, Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xvi + 318, £104.50 hb, £83.50 E-book; €149.79 hb, €118.99 E-book
DAVID LEHMANN
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 502 – 504
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000184 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos (eds.), Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016), pp. xvii + 185, £25.00 pb.
ALEJANDRO CAMARGO
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 504 – 506
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000196 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom and Michiel Baud (eds.), Environmental Governance in Latin America (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. xii + 338, £20.00, £15.00 pb.
JASKIRAN CHOHAN, GRAHAM WOODGATE
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 506 – 508
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000202 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Barry Cannon, The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), pp. xv + 179, £24.99 pb.
ERNESTO BOHOSLAVSKY
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 508 – 510
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000214 Published Online on 13 April 2018

John Crabtree and Francisco Durand, Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture (London: Zed Books, 2017), pp. vii + 206, £19.99 pb and E-book
OMAR AWAPARA
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 510 – 512
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000226 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Hanna S. Kassab and Jonathan D. Rosen (eds.), The Obama Doctrine in the Americas (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016), pp. xxiii + 344, £75.00, £32.95 pb, £31.95 E-book; $110, $49.99 pb, $46.99 E-book
DAVID SCOTT PALMER
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 512 – 513
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000238 Published Online on 13 April 2018

Joseph S. Tulchin, Latin America in International Politics: Challenging US Hegemony (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016), pp. vii + 235, $62.00; £60.50 hb.
TOM LONG
Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 50 / Issue 2, May 2018, pp 513 – 515
doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800024X Published Online on 13 April 2018