Reviews

Books reviewed: Burns Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru Socolow The Women of Colonial Latin America Dunkerley Americana. The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or ‘Seeing the Elephant’ as the Theme for an Imaginary Western) Wasserman Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico. Men, Women and War Alonso Between Revolution and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party Peard Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth‐Century Brazilian Medicine Iverleigh The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival Dore and Molyneaux Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America Ehlers Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town Townsend, Zapata, Rowlands, Alberti and Mercado, eds Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty Higgins and Coen Streets, Bedrooms and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity of Urban Oaxaca Vila Crossing Borders – Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the US–Mexico Frontier Rochín and Valdés Voices of a New Chicano/o History Flores From Bomba to Hip‐hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity Early and Peters The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics Díaz‐Briquets and Pérez‐López Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba Hall Amazonia At The Crossroads: the Challenge of Sustainable Development Clifton The Politics of Telecommunications in Mexico: Privatization and State‐Labour Relations, 1982–1995