Reviews

Conveying the complex enigmatic contradiction that is Argentina in the pages of a book is accomplished in this installment of

Nazih Richani’s book Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia is a convincing and important

This exhaustive account of the last major U.S. Cold War adventure is destined to become a definitive source on the

Cultural criticism is an ambiguous and heterogeneous practice, defiant of disciplinary location and elusive of precise definition. As such, perhaps

This is a highly personal account of a filmmaker's journey into the Amazon to record the gold mining rush and

Planet of Slums by Mike Davis, 2005, Verso, 228 pages, $24.00 paperback. Latin America is the most urbanized region of

This is a pathbreaking study of the changes in U.S. policy wrought by the "epochal shift" of globalization. The core

First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 ed. by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath,

This provocative and wellitched book, Ariel Armony examines how the Argentine security forces exported both their ideology and counterinsurgency strategies

Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America by Thomas R. Melville, 2005, Xilibris, 652 pages, $38.99 cloth,

Revolutions and rebellions are usually considered to be prime opportunities for evaluating potential changes in gender roles. The two books

Transnationalism is the buzzword used by scholars seeking to explain the identity, culture and social structures of immigrants straddling two