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A Revolution in Fragments
Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia MARK GOODALE
Mark Goodale’s ethnographic study of Bolivian politics and society between 2006 and 2015 reveals the fragmentary and contested nature of the country’s radical experiments in pluralism, ethnic politics, and socioeconomic planning. Goodale uses contemporary Bolivia as an ideal case study with which to theorize the role that political agency, identity, and economic equality play within movements for justice and structural change. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 28 illus. 320pp 9781478006527 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Parenting Empires Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America ANA YOLANDA RAMOS-ZAYAS
In Parenting Empires Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity. The author sheds light on how child-rearing practices permit urban elites in the Global South to sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 13 illus. 296pp 9781478008217 £21.99 PB now £15.39
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Mafalda
A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic ISABELLA COSSE TRANSLATED BY LAURA PÉREZ CARRARA
In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America’s Global Comic Isabella Cosse examines the history, political commentary, and influence of the world-famous comic character Mafalda from her Argentine origins in 1964 to her global reach in the 1990s. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Latin America in Translation December 2019 56 illus. 288pp 9781478006381 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Pluriversal Politics
The Real and the Possible ARTURO ESCOBAR
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afrodescendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Latin America in Translation April 2020 3 illus. 232pp 9781478008460 £20.99 PB now £14.69
A Miscarriage of Justice
Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil CASSIA ROTH
A Miscarriage of Justice examines women’s reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. Roth argues that the state’s approach to women’s health in the early twentieth century focused on criminalizing fertility control without improving services or outcomes for women. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 376pp 9781503611320 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights LIGIA DE JESÚS CASTALDI
New and original study, the first major publication to analyze the abortion laws of Latin American and Caribbean nations, parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. Questions how human rights bodies currently interpret Article (4)1. Offers objective analysis of national and international laws on abortion for the first time in English. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS June 2020 520pp 9780268107659 £62.00 HB now £43.40
Against Abstraction
Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist ALBERTO MOREIRAS
In a deeply personal, genre-bending work, Moreiras reflects on his career, from his emigration from Spain to pursue doctoral studies to his thirty years of immersion in the capricious tides of academia, describing how he eventually transitioned to become an eminent scholar of critical theory, existential philosophy, and ultimately infrapolitics and posthegemony. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2020 248pp 9781477319826 £36.00 HB now £25.20
Agent of Change
Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist CYNTHIA E. OROZCO
Inspiring and illuminating, this is the first comprehensive biography of the essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901– 1998), a formidable civil rights activist and feminist whose grassroots organizing in Texas made her an influential voice in the fight for equal rights for Mexican Americans on both sides of the US-Mexico border. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2020 15 b&w photos, 1 map 272pp 9781477319864 £32.00 HB now £22.40
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An Ecology of Knowledges
Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation MICHA RAHDER
Micha Rahder explores how multiple ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice, local livelihoods, and landscapes. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Experimental Futures April 2020 28 illus. 336pp 9781478006916 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Archiving an Epidemic
Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ
Archiving an Epidemic catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s, and onto the remnants and legacies of these artists in the current moment. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sexual Cultures November 2019 60 b&w illus., 12 color illus. 320pp 9781479820832 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Argentina in the Global Middle East LILY PEARL BALLOFFET
Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migranthomeland ties, and international relations. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 264pp 9781503613010 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Before the Flood
The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil JACOB BLANC
Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam—the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world— on the Brazil–Paraguay border during the 1970s and 1980s to explore the long-standing conflicts around land, rights, indigeneity, and identity in rural Brazil. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 40 illus. 320pp 9781478004899 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Concrete Dreams
Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires NICHOLAS D’AVELLA
Nicholas D’Avella offers an ethnographic reflection on the value of buildings in post-crisis Buenos Aires, showing how everyday practices transform buildings into politically, economically, and socially consequential objects, and arguing that such local forms of value and practice suggest possibilities for building better futures. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 55 illus. 312pp 9781478006305 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy Beyond Redemption OMAR RIVERA
Omar Rivera is interested in how narratives of “we” are constructed in Latin American philosophy. He turns to the philosophers of revolutionary moments as a way to imagine alternative visions of social and political reality, arguing that these “redemptive” moments or myths help mold group identity and can shape the future for Latin American culture, politics, and civil society. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: World Philosophies December 2019 222pp 9780253044853 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Digital Pirates
Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil ALEXANDER SEBASTIAN DENT
Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP). STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2020 208pp 9781503612976 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Engendering Revolution
Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela RACHEL ELFENBEIN
Showcasing field research that comprises archival analysis, observation, and extensive interviews, Engendering Revolution is the first indepth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women’s unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS December 2019 8 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus. 288pp 9781477319147 £26.99 PB now £18.89
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Fidel between the Lines
Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema LAURA-ZOË HUMPHREYS
Laura-Zoë Humphreys traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in late-socialist Cuba through a focus on cinema. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and archival research, Humphreys shows how Cuban filmmakers have historically turned to allegory to communicate an ambivalent relationship to the Revolution. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 22 illus. 304pp 9781478006244 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Fighting Fascist Spain Worker Protest from the Printing Press MONTSE FEU
The 1930s anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants in the US created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in Spain. Feu Merges the story of the publication with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS May 2020 280pp 9780252085116 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Food in Cuba
The Pursuit of a Decent Meal HANNA GARTH
Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second largest city, Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba’s faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 232pp 9781503611092 £19.99 PB now £13.99
Goodbye, My Havana The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba ANNA VELTFORT
Goodbye, My Havana is the gripping story of everyday life, love, and sexual persecution during the early years of the Cuban Revolution as lived and seen through the eyes of a young German-American student, the lesbian daughter of American Communists who worked there for the government. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 240pp 9781503610491 £18.99 PB now £13.29
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Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 74
Humanities EDITED BY KATHERINE D. MCCANN
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS May 2020 888pp 9781477320983 £119.00 HB now £83.30
Hierarchies of Care
Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru KRISTA E VAN VLEET
Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of the young women of Palomitáy. Groundbreaking and original, Hierarchies of Care highlights the moral engagement of young women seeking to understand themselves and their place in society in the presence of circumstances that are both precarious and full of hope. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium October 2019 230pp 9780252084614 £19.99 PB now £13.99
I Never Left Home
Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary MARGARET RANDALL
In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life, from her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista movement in Nicaragua, from escaping political repression in Mexico to raising a family and teaching college. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 30 illus. 336pp 9781478006183 £23.99 HB now £16.79
Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina Defending the True Nation JEANE DELANEY
Nationalism has played a uniquely powerful role in Argentine history, in large part due to the rise and enduring strength of two variants of anti-liberal nationalist thought: one left-wing and identifying with the “people,” and the other right-wing and identifying with Argentina’s Catholic heritage.In this study, Jeane DeLaney explores the origins and development of Argentina’s two forms of nationalism by linking nationalist thought to ongoing debates over Argentine identity. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS June 2020 486pp 9780268107901 £37.00 PB now £25.90
Kissinger and Latin America
Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy STEPHEN G. RABE
In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G. Rabe analyzes US policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored interAmerican relations during the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 15 b&w halftones 330pp 9781501706295 £35.00 HB now £24.50
Landscapes of Inequity
Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region EDITED BY NICHOLAS A. ROBINS & EDITED BY BARBARA J. FRASER
Latinx Environmentalisms
Place, Justice, and the Decolonial EDITED BY SARAH D. WALD, DAVID J. VAZQUEZ, PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA & SARAH JAQUETTE RAY FOREWORD BY LAURA PULIDO AFTERWORD BY STACY ALAIMO
The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the contributors to Latinx Environmentalisms map the ways Latinx cultural texts integrate environmental concerns with questions of social and political justice. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 366pp 9781439916674 £32.00 PB now £22.40
Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS July 2020 6 maps, 7 tables 414pp 9781496208026 £54.00 HB now £37.80
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Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America
The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship EDITED BY MANUEL BALÁN & FRANÇOISE MONTAMBEAULT
This book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship in Latin America, evaluating both the positive and negative effects of the Left turn on state-society relations and inclusion. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development March 2020 472pp 9780268106577 £50.00 HB now £35.00
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border SARAH LUNA
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the border city of Reynosa. Luna scrutinizes la zona, the people who work to survive there, and Reynosa itself—including the influence of the United States—adding nuance and new understanding to the current USMexico border crisis. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS April 2020 8-page color insert 264pp 9781477320501 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina JULIA ALBARRACÍN
Argues that modern Argentina’s selection of immigrants lies at the intersection of state decision-making processes and a number of economic, cultural, and international factors. Discusses how the current Macri administration, possibly emulating the Trump administration’s immigration policies, has rolled back some of the rights awarded to immigrants. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS May 2020 270pp 9780268107611 £45.00 HB now £31.50
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace MATÍAS DEWEY
Dewey dives deep into the world of La Salada to examine how market exchanges function outside the law and how agreements and norms develop in the economy for counterfeit clothing. Drawing on seven months of research and interviews, Dewey argues that aspirations for a better future shape garment workers’ everyday practices. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS June 2020 2 maps, 1 b&w illus. 272pp 9781477321058 £36.00 HB now £25.20
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Making Market Women
Gender, Religion, and Work in Ecuador JILL DETEMPLE
Tells of the initial success, and later failure, of a liberationist Catholic women’s cooperative in central Ecuador. Argues that when gender and religious identities are capitalized, they are made vulnerable. Using archival and ethnographic methods, shares the story of the women involved in the cooperative, producing cheese and knitted goods for local markets. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS March 2020 212pp 9780268107451 £45.00 HB now £31.50
Matters of Justice
Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico HELGA BAITENMANN
Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico’s revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary’s authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers’ role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: The Mexican Experience May 2020 4 photos, 8 illus. 342pp 9781496219480 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Maya Bonesetters
Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala SERVANDO Z. HINOJOSA ILLUSTRATED BY SERVANDO G. HINOJOSA
Maya Bonesetters is the first booklength study of bonesetting in Guatemala and situates the manual healing tradition within the current cultural context—one in which a changing medical landscape potentially threatens bonesetters’ work. This book analyzes and contrasts the empirical and sacred approaches of various healers. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS March 2020 19 b&w illus. 256pp 9781477320297 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing EDITED BY REBECCA DUFENDACH
The sixteenth-century encounter between Mesoamericans and Europeans resulted in a tremendous loss of life in indigenous communities and significantly impacted their health and healing strategies. Contributors to this special issue of Ethnohistory address how indigenous people experienced bodily health in the wake of this encounter. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 13 illus. 142pp 9781478005209 £11.99 PB now £8.39
meXicana Fashions Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction EDITED BY AÍDA HURTADO & NORMA E. CANTÚ
Collecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine the role of consumerism and entrepreneurialism in the production of creating and selling a style, meXicana Fashions examines and searches for meaning in these visible, performative aspects of identity. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS February 2020 29 b&w photos 336pp 9781477319598 £26.99 PB now £18.89
Organizing While Undocumented Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law KEVIN ESCUDERO
Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how—despite this risk— many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Latina/o Sociology February 2020 208pp 9781479834150 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Orozco’s American Epic
Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race MARY K. COFFEY
Mary K. Coffey examines José Clemente Orozco’s mural cycle Epic of American Civilization, which indicts history as complicit in colonial violence and questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 100 color illus. 384pp 9781478002987 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Out of the Shadow
Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala EDITED BY JULIE GIBBINGS & HEATHER VRANA
Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring” began when citizens ushered in a remarkable period of social reform. Presenting the research of diverse anthropologists and historians, Out of the Shadow offers a new examination of this pivotal chapter in Latin American history whilst also shedding light on the period’s atrocities. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS July 2020 9 illus. 336pp 9781477320853 £36.00 HB now £25.20
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Pictured Politics
Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections EMILY ENGEL
Emily Engel explores how official portraiture originated and evolved to become an essential component in the construction of Ibero-American political relationships. The first standalone analysis of South American portraiture, Pictured Politics brings to light the historical relevance of political portraits in crafting the history of South American colonialism. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS March 2020 79 b&w illus., 24 color plates 280pp 9781477320594 £48.00 HB now £33.60
Politics of Temporalization
Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America NADIA R. ALTSCHUL
Contends that the alleged existence of medievality and Moorishness in the Ibero-American archive is not due to the existence of a past that continues to animate the present but instead to a form of temporalizing that names aspects of the present as remnants of an imagined past. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS June 2020 288pp 9780812252279 £64.00 HB now £44.80
Predictable Pleasures
Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán LAUREN A. WYNNE
In Predictable Pleasures, Lauren A. Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: At Table May 2020 9 photos 300pp 9781496201317 £41.00 HB now £28.70
Quinceañera Style Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities RACHEL VALENTINA GONZÁLEZ
Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, have evolved into an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. This is a dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-ofage quinceañera celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS February 2020 232pp 9781477319697 £22.99 PB now £16.09
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Radical Cartographies Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America EDITED BY BJØRN SLETTO, ALFREDO WAGNER, JOE BRYAN & CHARLES HALE
Critically explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. The authors fundamentally rethink the role of maps and launch a unique dialogue about the radical edge of a new social cartography. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS August 2020 40 illus. 224pp 9781477320884 £36.00 HB now £25.20
Revolutionary Positions
Sexuality and Gender in Cuba and Beyond EDITED BY MICHELLE CHASE, ISABELLA COSSE,MELINA PAPPADEMOS & HEIDI TINSMAN
As the Cuban Revolution reaches its sixtieth anniversary, contributors to this special issue explore the impact of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, providing a social and cultural history that illuminates the Cuban-influenced global New Left. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 16 illus. 234pp 9781478008774 £10.99 PB now £7.69
Risking Immeasurable Harm
Shifting Livelihoods
Relevant to current debates about immigration and the role of restrictions in inter-American diplomacy, Risking Immeasurable Harm demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS April 2020 9 tables, 1 graph 342pp 9781496201294 £45.00 HB now £31.50
Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Culture, Place, and Nature July 2020 16 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts 264pp 9780295747538 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Immigration Restriction and U.S.Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932 BENJAMIN C. MONTOYA
Sandinistas
A Moral History ROBERT J. SIERAKOWSKI
Offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections and oral histories, offer a new understanding of the role that was played by everyday Nicaraguans. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS December 2019 340pp 9780268106898 £27.99 HB now £19.59
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia DANIEL TUBB FOREWORD & SERIES EDITED BY K. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946 ROCIO GOMEZ
Examines the detrimental effects of the silver mining industry on water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas and argues that the human labor necessary to the mining industry made the worker and the mine inseparable through the land, water, and air. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: The Mexican Experience July 2020 14 photos, 2 maps, 3 tables, 3 graphs 288pp 9781496221117 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Students of Revolution
Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua CLAUDIA RUEDA
Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build crossclass movements that eventually paralyzed Somoza-Era Nicaragua. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS December 2019 8 b&w photos, 1 map 304pp 9781477319307 £36.00 HB now £25.20
Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa A Retrospective EDITED BY RAQUEL CHANGRODRÍGUEZ & CARLOS RIOBÓ
The essays included in Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa celebrate Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York, offering readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: New Hispanisms August 2020 15 photos 258pp 9781496220257 £50.00 HB now £35.00
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The Adorned Body
Mapping Ancient Maya Dress EDITED BY NICHOLAS CARTER, STEPHEN HOUSTON & FRANCO ROSSI
Carter, Houston, and Rossi bring together contributions from a wide range of scholars, leading to the first in-depth study of Maya dress in Precolumbian times. Shedding new light on the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, The Adorned Body investigates categories of dress, as well as popular styles and trends through time. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS August 2020 98 b&w illus., 8-page color insert 264pp 9781477320709 £48.00 HB now £33.60
The Chicano Studies Reader
An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970– 2019 EDITED BY CHON A. NORIEGA, ERIC AVILA, KAREN MARY DAVALOS, CHELA SANDOVAL, RAFAEL PÉREZTORRES & CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK
The Chicano Studies Reader, the bestselling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. UCLA CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER PRESS March 2020 21 b&w illus., 32 tables 728pp 9780895511720 £20.99 PB now £14.69
The Florentine Codex An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico EDITED BY JEANETTE FAVROT PETERSON & KEVIN TRERRACIANO
Scholars explore the most significant trove of Nahua culture and language: an illustrated manuscript compiled after the Spanish conquest by a Franciscan friar with many indigenous authors and painters. This work ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS October 2019 122 color & 9 b&w photos, 1 map 256pp 9781477318409 £44.00 HB now £30.80
The Frontier Effect
State Formation and Violence in Colombia TEO BALLVÉ
Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment March 2020 13 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 3 maps 228pp 9781501747540 £21.99 PB now £15.39
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The Government of Beans
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops KREGG HETHERINGTON
Kregg Hetherington uses Paraguay’s turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 1 illus. 304pp 9781478006893 £21.99 PB now £15.39
The Haiti Reader
History, Culture, Politics EDITED BY LAURENT DUBOIS, KAIAMA L. GLOVER, NADÈVE MÉNARD, MILLERY POLYNÉ & CHANTALLE F. VERNA
Spanning the centuries between precontact indigenous Haiti to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, the selections in The Haiti Reader introduce readers to Haiti’s dynamic history and culture from the viewpoint of Haitians from all walks of life. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: The Latin America Readers January 2020 63 illus., incl. 17 in color 544pp 9781478006770 £23.99 PB now £16.79
The Kids Are in Charge The Mysterious Sofía Activism and Power in Peru’s Movement of Working Children JESSICA K. TAFT
Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should be—respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Critical Perspectives on Youth September 2019 272pp 9781479854509 £23.99 PB now £16.79
The Last Good Neighbor
Mexico in the Global Sixties ERIC ZOLOV
Eric Zolov prevents a revisionist account of Mexican domestic politics and international relations during the long 1960s, tracing how Mexico emerged from the shadow of FDR’s Good Neighbor policy to become a geopolitical player in its own right during the Cold War. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions May 2020 34 illus. 432pp 9781478006206 £24.99 PB now £17.49
One Woman’s Mission to Save Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Mexico STEPHEN J. C. ANDES
Stephen J. C. Andes uses the story of Sofía del Valle, who resisted religious persecution in an era of Mexican revolutionary upheaval, to tell the history of Catholicism’s global shift from north to south and the central role women played in Catholicism over the course of the twentieth century. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: The Mexican Experience December 2019 27 photos, 2 illus. 450pp 9781496217608 £27.99 PB now £19.59
The Politics of Taste
Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics ANA MARÍA REYES
In The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines how the polarizing art of Beatriz González disrupted Cold War aesthetic discourses and the politics of class and modernization in 1960s Colombia. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Art History Publication Initiative November 2019 105 color illus. 328pp 9781478003977 £21.99 PB now £15.39
The Sacred Cause
The Abolitionist Movement, AfroBrazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro JEFFREY NEEDELL
A political history of the abolition of slavery in Brazil, The Sacred Cause looks closely at both Afro-Brazilian political mobilization and parliamentary politics to shed light on the origins of the Abolitionist movement and its impact on race relations in Brazil. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 384pp 9781503609020 £62.00 HB now £43.40
The Spirit of Hispanism
Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936 DIANA ARBAIZA
Drawing from an interdisciplinary archive of literary essays, economic treatises, and political discourses, The Spirit of Hispanism revisits Peninsular Hispanism to underscore how the interlacing of cultural and commercial interests fundamentally shaped the Hispanist movement. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS March 2020 308pp 9780268106935 £45.00 HB now £31.50
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The Value of Aesthetics
Trafficking
Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture ALANNA CANT
The Value of Aesthetics is an ethnographic study of the economic and cultural impact of aesthetics, focusing on an internationally renowned workshop where Oaxacan woodcarvings, or alebrijes, are highly profitable. Cant also shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS September 2019 8-page color insert, 1 b&w map 204pp 9781477318812 £22.99 PB now £16.09
The Woman Who Turned Into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico LISA SOUSA
This book is an ambitious and wideranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 424pp 9781503613621 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States HECTOR AMAYA
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 7 illus. 280pp 9781478008040 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Vital Decomposition
Soil Practitioners and Life Politics KRISTINA M. LYONS
Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations in which she follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in Colombia’s Putumayo region, showing how their relationship with soil is key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit crops in the face of violence, militarism, and environmental destruction. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 42 illus., incl. 8 in color 232pp 9781478008163 £20.99 PB now £14.69
Writing Revolution
Hispanic Anarchism in the United States EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA & MONTSE FEU
In the late nineteenth through midtwentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanishlanguage print network. Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines the many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS October 2019 322pp 9780252084577 £22.99 PB now £16.09
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