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Americas is a full-color magazine published bi-monthly by the Organization of American Studies. Americas provides a rich mosaic of the peoples and cultures of South American, North American, and the Caribbean, through feature articles on art, history, literature, places, and people.

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WRITING BY CASTE, COUNTING THE PAST: ALPHABETIC LITERACY AND AGE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE COLONIAL PÁTZCUARO REGION, 1680-1750*

Jan 01, 2009; ... In June of 1739, what might have proven to be a festive early-summer afternoon celebrating the fiesta of Corpus Christi in Pátzcuaro (Mexico), instantaneously veered toward deadly combat when a fight broke out in the streets near a commonly used well in the San Augustin neighborhood, close by ...

SOCIALIZING THE KING'S DEBT: LOCAL AND ATLANTIC FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE MERCHANTS OF BUENOS AIRES, 1793-1808

Jan 01, 2009; ... Between 1722 and 1779, the Bourbon kings managed to achieve financial stability without broadening the tax base or borrowing on a large scale. The incorporation of Aragon's territories under the crown of Castile, the Bourbon administrative reforms, sustained population and economic growth during ...

COMPLAINING LIKE A LIBERAL: REDEFINING LAW, JUSTICE, AND OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT IN VENEZUELA, 1790-1850*

Jan 01, 2009; ... One night in April 1822, a slave snuck into Caracas' main plaza, and under cover of darkness, threw the feces of his entire household into the public well. A month later, a local magistrate appeared at the store of José Castellano and Manuel Gonzalez with a contingent of soldiers and arrested ...

"LA ENOJOSA CUESTIÓN DE EMERY": THE EMERY CLAIM IN NICARAGUA AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, C. 1880-1910

Jan 01, 2009; ... This article will argue that a seemingly trivial dispute between the Nicaraguan government and an American lumber company operating on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast escalated to become a major source of tension between the U.S. State Department and Nicaragua, as well as a catalyst that drew U.S ....

STEPHEN RANDAL NIBLO-AN OBITUARY

Jan 01, 2009; ... Latin Americanists, and especially Mexicanists, lost a valuable colleague in February 2008 when Stephen "Steve" Niblo died of a heart attack at his holiday home near Melbourne, Australia. He was sixty-six. Steve Niblo grew up in Colorado and in early 1977 joined the History Department at ...

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

Jan 01, 2009; ... A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. By Andrés Reséndez. New York: Basic Books, 2007. Pp. xiv, 314. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. $26.95 cloth. In "The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century" (the book's ...

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

Jan 01, 2009; ... CULTURAL & LITERARY STUDIES Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821. By Kelly DonahueWallace. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Pp. xxvii, 276. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 paper. Instructors of courses on colonial ...

Culturas imperiales. Experiencia y representación en América, Asia y África

Jan 01, 2009; ... Culturas imperiales. Experiencia y representación en América, Asia y África. Edited by Ricardo Salvatore. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2005. Pp. 381. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. $36.95 paper. This book collects the papers presented at the international colloquium ...

Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture

Jan 01, 2009; ... Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture. By Erica Segre. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. xiii, 316. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth. This is an insightful though difficult book that ...

Music & Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba

Jan 01, 2009; ... Music & Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. By Robin D. Moore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 350. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $24.95 paper. How did the Cuban Revolution change that island's famously rich and diverse popular ...

The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams

Jan 01, 2009; ... The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams. By Beatriz Sarlo; translated by Xavier Callahan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 185. Notes. $60.00 cloth. In this study written over a decade after her landmark essay on the intersection of avant-garde ...

Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy

Jan 01, 2009; ... ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy. Edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urion. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 392. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Notes. References. Index. $65.00 cloth. This ...

Gender and Democracy in Cuba

Jan 01, 2009; ... FAMILY & GENDER STUDIES Gender and Democracy in Cuba. By Ilja A. Luciak. Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 143. Tables. Notes. Bilbliography. Index. $59.95 cloth. Luciak's book contributes to the growing literature examining Cuban democracy on its own terms, ...

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848

Jan 01, 2009; ... Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848. Translated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2007. Pp. xxxvii, 247. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $27.50 cloth; $18.95 paper. This is an amazing work ...

Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

Jan 01, 2009; ... Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America. Edited by Ondina E. González and Bianca Premo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 258. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $24.95 paper. In her introductory essay for Raising an Empire, Ondina ...

Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier

Jan 01, 2009; ... NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier. By William E. Skuban. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 314. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 paper. The Tacna-Arica dispute ...

Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808

Jan 01, 2009; ... POLITICAL ECONOMY & GLOBALIZATION Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808. By Gabriel B. Paquette. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xi, 244. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95 cloth. This work joins the short list of scholarly ...

Excepciones y privilegios. Modernización tributaria y centralización en México, 1922-1972

Jan 01, 2009; ... Excepciones y privilegios. Modernización tributaria y centralización en México, 1922-1972. By Luis Aboites Aguilar. Tlalpan, México: El Colegio de México, 2003. Pp. 448. Tables. Figures. Maps. Notes. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography, Indices. Few dispute the decisive role of fiscal ...

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul

Jan 01, 2009; ... Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul. By Michael Reid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xv, 384. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00 cloth. Several themes permeate Michael Reid's intelligent and thoughtful overview of contemporary ...

World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America

Jan 01, 2009; ... World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. Edited by Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 323. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth; $42.00 paper. This edited volume examines the ...