Lisa Blackmore.
Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958.
Pitt Illuminations Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Illustrations. 240 pp.
$28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6438-4. 
Daniel Lagares and Mariano Agudo. The Search (La Búsqueda). Brooklyn, NY: Icarus Films, 2018. 75 min.; color.
Reviewed by Ulices Piña (California State University, Long Beach) Published on H-LatAm (May, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55247
John B. Boles.
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty.
New York: Basic Books, 2017. 640 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09468-4. Padraig Riley.
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 328 pp.
$47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4749-7.
Edmund Russell.
Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200-1900.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 214 pp.
$94.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-76209-0; $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-74505-5.
James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham, dir. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Chicago: Higher Ground Productions, 2020. 106 mins.
Reviewed by Neil Dhingra (University of Maryland) Published on H-Disability (May, 2020) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55249
Brian A. Stauffer. Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico's Religionero Rebellion. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Illustrations. 392 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8263-6127-1.
Reviewed by Roberto Di Stefano (Conicet/Universidad Nacional de La Pampa) Published on H-LatAm (May, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Dear All,
Allow me to again thank Clare for her service on behalf of this intellectual community, and to let subscribers know that we do have two new volunteer editors who are in training and will be taking over the editorial work in the coming weeks. You may see a little pause in activity while that happens, but rest assured, we'll be back up and running in no time.
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