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Forthcoming titles | Palgrave Macmillan Series 'Studies in the Americas' | Journal of Latin American Studies contents - August 2004 and November 2004

Forthcoming titles

Football in the Americas: Fútbol, Futebol, Soccer edited by Rory Miller A comparative view of the sport that explores the connections between football and three interconnected worlds: those of business, politics, and the fans and players themselves.
The Financing of Politics: Latin American and European Perspectives edited by Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Carlos Malamud In this collection the individual experiences of several Latin American countries regarding the funding of party politics (including Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela) are examined against the background of Western Europe, with a view to identifying similarities as well as differences. more details >>
Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries edited by Christian Brannstrom This collection engages with emerging conceptual debates within environmental history, relating a number of case studies not only to Latin America, but also to related topics in the North American, European, African and Asian historiographies. more details >>
Some Other Amazonians: Perspectives on Modern Amazonia edited by Stephen Nugent and Mark Harris An anthropological study that indicates the diversity of Amazonian societies and extends the anthropology of Amazonia beyond its traditional limits. more details >>
Think Globally, Act Locally: New Environmental Policy in Latin America edited by Anthony Hall This collection examines several innovative strategies in the Amazon rainforest which involve multi-institutional responses to environmental threats, with initial results that offer cautious hope for the future. more details >>
Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America edited by Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo L. Ortiz This collection considers relations between the humanities and the sciences in a Latin American context. The geographical emphasis is important given the prominent role of science in the formation of the nation-states in Latin America and its strong presence in the cultural output of the area. more details >>
*The Institute welcomes proposals for publications in areas relevant to its work.*

Palgrave Macmillan series - 'Studies in the Americas'

Edited by:
James Dunkerley, Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London

Description:
Titles in this series will typically be multi-disciplinary studies of aspects of the societies of the hemisphere, particularly in the areas of politics, economics, history, anthropology, sociology and the environment. The series will aim to cover a comparative perspective across the Americas, including Canada and the Caribbean as well as the USA and Latin America.

The series will include edited collections, which will allow an exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles by eminent scholars; book-length studies providing a deeper focus on a single topic; and readers on specific themes.

Forthcoming books in the series include:

A collection on the judicialisation of politics in Latin America, edited by Rachel Sieder, Alan Angell and Line Schjolden

A collection on Latin American democracy edited by Laura Tedesco

A study of former Brazilian president and dictator Getúlio Vargas by Jens Hentschke

A collection of essays by Laurence Whitehead, noted scholar of Latin American politics.

Submissions:
If you have a project for our series, feel free to be in touch with series editor about the topic: James Dunkerley (James.Dunkerley@sas.ac.uk). However, please send (by email or regular mail) the actual proposal to Ella Pearce at Palgrave, she will forward it on.

In you cover letter to Ella, please mention that you are interested in having your project considered for the series. If possible, include a proposal, detailed table of contents, sample material, and a current curriculum vitae.

Send to:
Gabriella Pearce, Associate Editor
Palgrave / St. Martin’s Press
175 Fifth Avenue, room 200
New York, NY 10010
Gabriella.Pearce@palgrave-usa.com
(212) 982-3900 x 485

Journal of Latin American Studies
Contents - August 2004: Law and Politics Special Issue

ARTICLES

The Ombudsman in Latin America: A Preliminary Assessment, FREDRIK UGGLA

The Evolution of Judicial Autonomy in Argentina: Establishing the Rule of Law in an Ultrapresidential System, REBECCA BILL CHAVEZ

The Pinochet Case and Human Rights Progress in Chile: Was Europe a Catalyst, Cause or Inconsequential?, DAVID PION-BERLIN

The Best Laid Schemes … Gang Aft A-gley: Judicial Reform in Latin America – Evidence from Costa Rica, BRUCE M. WILSON, JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ CORDERO AND ROGER HANDBERG

Chicken Thieves, Witches and Judges: Vigilante Justice and Customary Law in Guatemala, JIM HANDY

COMMENTARY

The Principle of Consent in Latin and Anglo-American Independence, JOSÉ CARLOS CHIARAMONTE

BOOK REVIEWS

Santa Arias and Mariselle Meléndez (eds.), Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture, and Experience, reviewed by Daniela Bleichmar

Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli with John V. Cotter (cartographer), Historical Atlas of Central America, reviewed by Murdo J. MacLeod

Iván Jaksic (ed.), The Political Power of the Word: Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, reviewed by Paula Alonso

Tom Brass (ed.), Latin American Peasants, reviewed by Cristóbal Kay

Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord (eds.), Latin Politics, Global Media, reviewed by James Painter

Hector E. Schamis, Re-Forming the State: The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe, reviewed by Sarah Babb

Francine Masiello, The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis, reviewed by Jon Beasley-Murray

Rutgerd Boelens and Paul Hoogendam (eds.), Water Rights and Empowerment, reviewed by Willem Assies

R. Andrew Chesnut, Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy, reviewed by David Stoll

Max Paul Friedman, Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II, reviewed by Marcus Klein

Paul E. Little, Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers, reviewed by Laura Rival

Helio Jaguaribe and Alvaro de Vasconcelos (eds.), The European Union, Mercosul and the New World Order, reviewed by Nicola Phillips

Linda Lewin, Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889, reviewed by Andrew J. Kirkendall

Raanan Rein, Argentina, Israel and the Jews: Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After, reviewed by Mario Sznajder

Sinclair Thomson, We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency, reviewed by David T. Garrett

Amalia Pallares, From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century, reviewed by Robert Andolina

Enrique Brahm García, Preparados para la guerra: pensamiento militar chileno bajo influencia alemana 1885-1930, reviewed by William F. Sater

Roberto Arancibia Clavel, La influencia del ejército chileno en América Latina 1900-1950, reviewed by William F. Sater

Alfredo López Austin and Leonardo López Luján, Mexico’s Indigenous Past, reviewed by Gordon Brotherston

Marie Theresa Hernández, Delirio: The Fantastic, The Demonic and The Réel, reviewed by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Christon I. Archer (ed.), The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824, reviewed by Brian Hamnett

Claudia Agostoni and Elisa Speckman (eds.), Modernidad, tradición y alteridad: la Ciudad de México en el cambio de Siglo (XIX-XX), reviewed by William H. Beezley

Keith Brewster, Militarism, Ethnicity and Politics in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, 1917-1930, reviewed by Raymond Buvé

Valentina Napolitano, Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living in Urban Mexico, reviewed by Miguel Diaz-Barriga

Leslie Salzinger, Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories, reviewed by Matthew C. Gutmann

Steven Palmer, From Popular Medicine to Medical Pluralism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940, reviewed by Claudia Agostoni

Luis Martínez-Fernández, D. H. Figueredo, Louis A. Pérez Jr., and Luis González (eds.), Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture, reviewed by Jonathan Curry-Machado

Contents - November 2004

ARTICLES

Religious ‘Speculation’: The Rise of Ifá Cults and Consumption in Post-Soviet Cuba, MARTIN HOLBRAAD

Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a Man of Letters in Algeria, RICARDO CICERCHIA

Paulo Freire, Eduardo Frei, Literacy Training, and the Politics of Conciousness Raising in Chile, 1964-1970, ANDREW KIRKENDALL

The ‘Gender Gap’ in Chile, PAUL H. LEWIS

Latin America, Chile and East Asia: Policy Networks and Successful Diversification, JORG FAUST

Antirevolutionary Diplomacy in Oligarchic Brazil, 1819-1830, EUGENIO VARGAS GARCIA

BOOK REVIEWS

Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz (eds.), Latin America in a Changing Global Environment, reviewed by Andrew Hurrell

Gary Prevost and Carlos Oliva Campos (eds.), Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Latin America, reviewed by Nicola Phillips

Carol Wise and Riordan Roett (eds.) Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition and Collapse, reviewed by Jean Grugel

Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter S. Cleaves, Gary Gereffi, and Jonathan Hartlyn, Latin America in the 21st Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix, reviewed by Fernando F. Sánchez C.

Leonardo Avritzer, Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, reviewed by Gareth A. Jones

James Petras, The New Development Politics: The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements, reviewed by Ronaldo Munck

Kirk S. Bowman, Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America, reviewed by Gregory Weeks

Christopher Abel and Colin Lewis (eds.), Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America, reviewed by Carol Graham

Matthew C. Gutmann, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Lynn Stephen and Patricia Zavella (eds.), Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, reviewed by Rebecca Earle

Vincent C. Peloso (ed.), Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America, reviewed by David McCreery

David Carrasco, (ed. in chief), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1-3, reviewed by Richard E.W. Adams

Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M. Lockhart and James Lockhart (eds.), The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's 'Huei tlamahuiçoltica' of 1649, reviewed by Caterina Pizzigoni

Jessica Joyce Christie (ed.), Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach, reviewed by Astrid Runggaldier

Suzanne B. Pasztor, The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila, reviewed by Paul Gillingham

Caroline C. Beer, Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico, reviewed by Kevin J. Middlebrook

June C. Nash, Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization, reviewed by John Gledhill

Eugenia Rodríguez Sáenz (ed.), Mujeres, género e historia en América Central durante los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX, reviewed by Silvia Marina Arrom

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg (eds.), Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas, reviewed by Frank Ellis

John Lindsay-Poland, Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, reviewed by Corinne Caumartin

Karen Kampwirth, Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba, reviewed by Jennifer Schirmer

Sherry Johnson, The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba, reviewed by Anthony McFarlane

Muriel McAvoy, Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba, reviewed by Robert Whitney

Nancy P. Appelbaum, Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948, reviewed by Frank Safford

James Lang, Notes of a Potato Watcher, reviewed by Christian Brannstrom

Ben Orlove, Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca, reviewed by Andrew Canessa

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, La voz del Kultrun en la modernidad: Tradición y cambio en la terapéutica de siete Machi Mapuche, reviewed by Florencia E. Mallon

Luciana de Lima Martins, O Rio de Janeiro dos Viajantes: O olhar britânico, 1800-1850, reviewed by Matthias Röhrig Assunçao

Brian Vale, ‘A War Betwixt Englishmen’: Brazil Against Argentina on the River Plate 1825-1830, reviewed by Matthew Brown

Mauro F. Guillén, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain, reviewed by Ha-Joon Chang

Edmund Amann and Ha-Joon Chang (eds.), Brazil and South Korea: Economic Crisis and Restructuring, reviewed by Alfredo Saad-Filho

Jeffrey Lesser (ed.), Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism, reviewed by Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães

Sue Branford and Bernardo Kucinski with Hilary Wainwright, Politics Transformed: Lula and the Workers’ Party in Brazil; Gianpaolo Baiocchi (ed.), Radicals in Power: The Workers’ Party (PT) and Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil, reviewed by Kathryn Hochstetler

Maria D’Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley (eds.), Brazil Since 1985: Economy, Polity and Society, reviewed by Kurt Von Mettenheim

The Journal of Latin American Studies is edited by James Dunkerley, Paul Cammack and Rachel Sieder and published four times a year (in February, May, August and November) by Cambridge University Press. Its editorial office is located in the Institute for the Study of the Americas.