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In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 18, Heft 3, S. 377-399
ISSN: 1470-9856
Books reviewed in this article:Melville, Elinor G.K. (1997), A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of MexicoPérez, Louis A. Jr; (1998), The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography.Topik, Steven C. and Wells, Allen (eds.) (1998), The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom 1850–1930Berke, Phillip R. and Beatley, Timothy (1997), After the hurricane: linking recovery to sustainable development in the CaribbeanRandall, Stephen, J. and Mount, Graeme, S. (1998), The Caribbean Basin an international historyRichard Wilson (1995), Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' ExperiencesJudith N. Zur (1998). Violent Memories: Mayan War Widows in GuatemalaStillwaggon Eileen (1998), Stunted Lives, Stunted Economies: Poverty, Disease and UnderdevelopmentDye, Alan (1998), Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929Dominguez Jorge, I. (1997), Democratic Politics in Latin America and the CaribbeanSimon, J. (1997), Endangered Mexico — An Environment on the EdgeTaylor, L. (1998), Citizenship, Participation and Democracy — Changing Dynamics in Chile and ArgentinaBantjes, Adrian A. (1998) As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora and the Mexican RevolutionCleary, Edward L. and Stewart‐Gambino, Elizabeth (eds.) (1997), Power, Politics and Pentecostals in Latin AmericaJohn Holloway and Eloina Peláez (eds) (1998), Zapatista! Reinventing Revolution in MexicoMarta Durán de Huerta Patiño and Massimo Boldrini (1998), Acteal: Navidad en el InflernoCarolina Mariá de Jesus (1997), I'm Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus: (Casa de Alvenaria: Diario de uma ex‐faveladaGordon, E. (1998), Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African–Nicaraguan CommunityTobias, Hecht (1998), At Home In The Street: Street Children of Northeast BrazilDuncan, Green (1998), Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the CaribbeanTorres‐Saillant, S. (ed.) (1997), Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian LiteratureFolgarait, Leonard (1998), Mural Painting and Social Revolution in MexicoTaylor, Chris (1998), The Beautiful Game: a Journey Through Latin American FootballWilson, Larman C. and Dent, David W. (1998), Historical Dictionary of Inter‐American Organizations
Book Reviews
In: Development and change, Band 31, Heft 5, S. 1097-1117
ISSN: 1467-7660
Books reviewed:Brandon, Katrina, Redford, Kent H. and Sanderson, Steven E. (eds), Parks in Peril: People, Politics and Protected Areas.Schelhas, John and Greenberg, Russell (eds), Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes.Bryant, Raymond L. The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma 1824–1994.Råberg, Per (ed.), The Life Region: The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development.Hirsch, Philip and Warren, Carol (eds), The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia.Mathur, Kuldip (ed.). Development Policy and Administration. Readings in Indian Government and Politics I.Radhakrishna, R. and Sharma, Alakh N. (eds), Empowering Rural Labour in India: Market, State and Mobilisation.Jenkins, Rob. Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India.Weber, Maria (ed.), After the Asian Crises. Perspectives on Global Politics and Economics.El‐Ghonemy, M. Riad. Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East.Ruben, Ruerd. Making Cooperatives Work: Contract Choice and Resource Management within Land Reform Cooperatives in Honduras.Berke, Phillip R. and Beatley, Timothy. After the Hurricane: Linking Recovery to Sustainable Development in the Caribbean.Mapetla, Matseliso, Larsson, Anita and Schlyter, Ann (eds), Changing Gender Relations in Southern Africa — Issues of Urban Life.Kathuria, Sanjay. Competing through Technology and Manufacturing. A Study of the Indian Commercial Vehicles Industry.Kumar, Nagesh and Siddharthan, N. S. Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization: Issues and Policies for Developing Countries.Mosse, David, Farrington, John and Rew, Alan (eds), Development as Process. Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity.Eade, Deborah (Series editor) Development and Patronage.
Book Reviews
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 77, Heft 1-2, S. 127-196
ISSN: 2213-4360
-Philip D. Morgan, Marcus Wood, Blind memory: Visual representations of slavery in England and America 1780-1865. New York: Routledge, 2000. xxi + 341 pp.-Rosemarijn Hoefte, Ron Ramdin, Arising from bondage: A history of the Indo-Caribbean people. New York: New York University Press, 2000. x + 387 pp.-Flávio dos Santos Gomes, David Eltis, The rise of African slavery in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 353 pp.-Peter Redfield, D. Graham Burnett, Masters of all they surveyed: Exploration, geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xv + 298 pp.-Bernard Moitt, Eugenia O'Neal, From the field to the legislature: A history of women in the Virgin Islands. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. xiii + 150 pp.-Allen M. Howard, Nemata Amelia Blyden, West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: The African Diaspora in reverse. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. xi + 258 pp.-Michaeline A. Crichlow, Kari Levitt, The George Beckford papers. Kingston: Canoe Press, 2000. lxxi + 468 pp.-Michaeline A. Crichlow, Audley G. Reid, Community formation; A study of the 'village' in postemancipation Jamaica. Kingston: Canoe Press, 2000. xvi + 156 pp.-Linden Lewis, Brian Meeks, Narratives of resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2000. xviii + 240 pp.-Roderick A. McDonald, Bridget Brereton, Law, justice, and empire: The colonial career of John Gorrie, 1829-1892. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1997. xx + 371 pp.-Karl Watson, Gary Lewis, White rebel: The life and times of TT Lewis. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1999. xxvii + 214 pp.-Mary Turner, Armando Lampe, Mission or submission? Moravian and Catholic missionaries in the Dutch Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Göttingen, FRG: Vandenburg & Ruprecht, 2001. 244 pp.-O. Nigel Bolland, Anton L. Allahar, Caribbean charisma: Reflections on leadership, legitimacy and populist politics. Kingston: Ian Randle; Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001. xvi + 264 pp.-Bill Maurer, Cynthia Weber, Faking it: U.S. Hegemony in a 'post-phallic' era. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xvi + 151 pp.-Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Christina Duffy Burnett ,Foreign in a domestic sense: Puerto Rico, American expansion, and the constitution. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 422 pp., Burke Marshall (eds)-Rubén Nazario, Efrén Rivera Ramos, The legal construction of identity: The judicial and social legacy of American colonialism in Puerto Rico. Washington DC: American Psychological Association, 2000. 275 pp.-Marc McLeod, Louis A. Pérez, Jr., Winds of change: Hurricanes and the transformation of nineteenth-century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. x + 199 pp.-Jorge L. Giovannetti, Fernando Martínez Heredia ,Espacios, silencios y los sentidos de la libertad: Cuba entre 1878 y 1912. Havana: Ediciones Unión, 2001. 359 pp., Rebecca J. Scott, Orlando F. García Martínez (eds)-Reinaldo L. Román, Miguel Barnet, Afro-Cuban religions. Princeton NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001. 170 pp.-Philip W. Scher, Hollis 'Chalkdust' Liverpool, Rituals of power and rebellion: The carnival tradition in Trinidad and Tobago, 1763-1962. Chicago: Research Associates School Times Publications and Frontline distribution international, 2001. xviii + 518 pp.-Asmund Weltzien, David Griffith ,Fishers at work, workers at sea: A Puerto Rican journey through labor and refuge. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2002. xiv + 265 pp., Manuel Valdés Pizzini (eds)-Riva Berleant-Schiller, Eudine Barriteau, The political economy of gender in the twentieth-century Caribbean. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xvi + 214 pp.-Edward Dew, Rosemarijn Hoefte ,Twentieth-century Suriname: Continuities and discontinuities in a new world society. Kingston: Ian Randle; Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001. xvi + 365 pp., Peter Meel (eds)-Joseph L. Scarpaci, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, Power to the people: Energy and the Cuban nuclear program. New York: Routledge, 2000. xiii + 178 pp.-Lynn M. Festa, Keith A. Sandiford, The cultural politics of sugar: Caribbean slavery and narratives of colonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 221 pp.-Maria Christina Fumagalli, John Thieme, Derek Walcott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. xvii + 251 pp.-Laurence A. Breiner, Stewart Brown, All are involved: The art of Martin Carter. Leeds U.K.: Peepal Tree, 2000. 413 pp.-Mikael Parkvall, John Holm, An introduction to Pidgins and Creoles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxi + 282 pp.