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Author: 
Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey
Reviewer: 
Ray F. Broussard

Broussard on Durand and Massey, 'Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States'

Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey. Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xvi + 216 pp. $52.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-1471-7; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-1497-7.

Reviewed by Ray F. Broussard (University of Georgia) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
Oscar J. Martínez
Reviewer: 
Elliott Young

Young on Martínez, 'U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books on Latin America)'

Oscar J. Martínez. U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books on Latin America). Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996. xix + 264 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2446-4; $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8420-2447-1.

Reviewed by Elliott Young (University of Texas, Austin) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
Thomas Leonard
Reviewer: 
Ralph Lee Woodward

Woodward on Leonard, 'A Guide to Central American Collections in the United States'

Thomas Leonard. A Guide to Central American Collections in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. x + 186 pp. $69.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-28689-6.

Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward (Department of History, Texas Christian University) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
Elena Poniatowska, Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, Arthur Schmidt
Reviewer: 
Joyce E. Naylon

Naylon on Poniatowska and Schmidt and Schmidt, 'Nothing, Nobody (Voices Of Latin American Life)'

Elena Poniatowska, Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, Arthur Schmidt. Nothing, Nobody (Voices Of Latin American Life). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xxix + 327 pp. $84.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56639-344-7; $30.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56639-345-4.

Reviewed by Joyce E. Naylon (Humanities Department, Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colorado) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

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Author: 
David J. Weber, Jane M. Rausch
Reviewer: 
Lynne Guitar

Guitar on Weber and Rausch, 'Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History (Jaguar Books on Latin America)'

David J. Weber, Jane M. Rausch. Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History (Jaguar Books on Latin America). Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1994. xli + 233 pp. $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2477-8; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8420-2478-5.

Reviewed by Lynne Guitar (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
David G. Gutierrez
Reviewer: 
Yolanda C. Leyva

Leyva on Gutierrez, 'Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity'

David G. Gutierrez. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 320 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-20219-1; $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-08322-6.

Reviewed by Yolanda C. Leyva (Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
Paul J. Dosal
Reviewer: 
Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez

Sullivan-Gonzalez on Dosal, 'Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944'

Paul J. Dosal. Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1993. xi + 248 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8420-2590-4; $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2475-4.

Reviewed by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez (Department of History, University of Mississippi) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
John Charles Chasteen, Joseph S. Tulchin, eds.
Reviewer: 
Marc Becker

Becker on Chasteen and Tulchin, 'Problems in Modern Latin American History: A Reader'

John Charles Chasteen, Joseph S. Tulchin, eds. Problems in Modern Latin American History: A Reader. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1994. xvii + 339 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8420-2328-3; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8420-2327-6.

Reviewed by Marc Becker (University of Kansas) Published on H-LatAm (March, 1996)

Author: 
Rebecca Gates-Coon
Reviewer: 
Peter I. Hidas

Hidas on Gates-Coon, 'The Landed Estates of the EsterhÖ¡zy Princes: Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresia and Joseph II'

Rebecca Gates-Coon. The Landed Estates of the EsterhÖ¡zy Princes: Hungary during the Reforms of Maria Theresia and Joseph II. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xxi + 312 pp. $48.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-4785-1.

Reviewed by Peter I. Hidas (Dawson College) Published on HABSBURG (March, 1996)

Author: 
H. M. Scott, ed.
Reviewer: 
Rita Krueger

Krueger on Scott, 'The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'

H. M. Scott, ed. The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London and New York: Longman, 1995. x + 330 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-582-08066-9; $55.05 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-582-08072-0.

Reviewed by Rita Krueger (Harvard University) Published on HABSBURG (March, 1996)

Author: 
Joseph O. Vogel
Reviewer: 
Eugenia W. Herbert

Herbert on Vogel, 'Great Zimbabwe: The Iron Age in South Central Africa'

Joseph O. Vogel. Great Zimbabwe: The Iron Age in South Central Africa. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994. xxvi + 299 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8153-0398-5.

Reviewed by Eugenia W. Herbert (Mount Holyoke College) Published on H-Africa (March, 1996)

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