Journal of Latin American Studies presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in development studies, economics, geography, history, politics and international relations, public policy, sociology and social anthropology. Regular features include articles on contemporary themes, short thematic commentaries on key issues, and an extensive section of book reviews.
Research article
Swampy Sugar Lands: Irrigation Dams and the Rise and Fall of Malaria in Puerto Rico, 1898–1962 Matthew P. Johnson Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 243 – 271 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000743 Published Online on 13 November 2018
‘The Heart of the Country’: The Primacy of Peasants and Maize in Modern Guatemala David Carey Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 273 – 306 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001116 Published Online on 26 December 2018
The Other Door: Spain and the Guatemalan Counter-Revolution, 1944–54 Kirsten Weld Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 307 – 331 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001128 Published Online on 14 January 2019
The ‘Estatuto del Peón’: A Revolution for the Rights of Rural Workers in Argentina? Juan Manuel Palacio Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 333 – 356 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001062 Published Online on 19 November 2018
Integrating Science, Technology and Health Policies in Brazil: Incremental Change and Public Health Professionals as Agents of Reform Elize Massard da Fonseca, Kenneth Shadlen, Francisco Inácio Bastos Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 357 – 377 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18001050 Published Online on 31 October 2018
The Tools of Institutional Change under Post-Neoliberalism: Rafael Correa's Ecuador Francisco Sánchez, John Polga-Hecimovich Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 379 – 408 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1800072X Published Online on 30 October 2018
Operation Condor on Trial: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Crimes in South America Francesca Lessa Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 409 – 439 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X18000767 Published Online on 13 November 2018
Reviews
Scott R. Hutson (ed.), Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press, 2017), pp. xix + 376, $75.00, hb. Bernadette Cap Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 441 – 443 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000361 Published Online on 4 June 2019
David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), pp. xix + 332, $45.00, hb. Robert C. Schwaller Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 443 – 445 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000373 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2017), pp. 512, $39.95; £28.95; €36.00, hb. Alan Knight Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 445 – 447 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000385 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Sarah Osten, The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920–1929 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 285, £75.00, hb. William A. Booth Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 447 – 450 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000397 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Paulo Drinot (ed.), La Patria Nueva: Economía, sociedad y cultura en el Perú, 1919–1930 (Raleigh, NC: Editorial A Contracorriente, Serie Historia y Ciencias Sociales, 2018), pp. 277, pb. Ombeline Dagicour Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 450 – 452 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000403 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Bridget María Chesterton (ed.), The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. xi + 219, £65.00, hb. Christine Mathias Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 452 – 454 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000415 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Stephen L. Nugent, The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. xv + 207, £24.99, pb. Seth Garfield Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 454 – 456 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000427 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Sandra Kuntz-Ficker (ed.), The First Export Era Revisited: Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies (London and Heidelberg: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xviii + 348, €118.99; £76.00, hb. Manuel Llorca-Jaña Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 457 – 459 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000439 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Verónica Gago, Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 277, £20.99, pb. Mara Duer Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 459 – 461 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000440 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Adrian H. Hearn and Margaret Myers (eds.), The Changing Currents of Transpacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017), pp. viii + 163, £65.95, hb. Rhys Jenkins Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 461 – 463 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000452 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Jennifer Cyr, The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. xiii + 269, £75.00, hb. Scott J. Morgenstern Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 463 – 465 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000464 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska (eds.), Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America: State and Non-state Actors in the Promotion of and Opposition to Extractivism (London: Institute of Latin American Studies and Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2018), pp. xxxi + 209, £30.00, pb. Kristina Dietz Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 465 – 467 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000476 Published Online on 4 June 2019
David Pion-Berlin, Military Missions in Democratic Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature, 2017), pp. xiii + 218, $105.00; £71.00, hb. Christopher Darnton Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 468 – 470 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000488 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Cynthia E. Milton, Conflicted Memory: Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), pp. xv + 276, £74.95, hb. Daniel Willis Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 470 – 472 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900049X Published Online on 4 June 2019
Jane D. Griffin, The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), pp. ix + 218, $85.00, $25.95 pb. Bárbara Silva Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 473 – 474 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000506 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso, They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), pp. xxiii + 246, $29.95, pb. Amelia M. Kiddle Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 475 – 477 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000518 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Jason Oliver Chang, Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880–1940 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017), pp. xi + 253, $28.00 pb. Jian Gao Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 477 – 479 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X1900052X Published Online on 4 June 2019
Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Diásporas chinas a las Américas (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, 2015), pp. 254, pb. Carol Chan Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 479 – 481 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000531 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Lisa Pinley Covert, San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), pp. xxix + 289, £25.99, pb. Christina Bueno Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 482 – 483 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000543 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Stephen D. Allen, A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2017), pp. xiv + 281, £61.95, hb. David Wood Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 484 – 486 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000555 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Amalendu Misra, Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. xiii + 179, £72.00; $99.99, hb. Regnar A. Kristensen Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 486 – 489 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000567 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017), pp. xix + 370, $29.95, pb. Nathaniel Morris Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 489 – 491 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000579 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Martijn Oosterbaan, Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2017), pp. x + 249, $84.95, hb. David Lehmann Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 491 – 493 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000580 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman, The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse: Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. xvi + 227, £105.00, hb. Andrea Espinoza Carvajal Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 493 – 495 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000592 Published Online on 4 June 2019
Mary J. Holbrock, Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), pp. xviii + 250, £70.50, hb. Sarah Washbrook Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 51 / Issue 2, May 2019, pp 496 – 497 doi: 10.1017/S0022216X19000609 Published Online on 4 June 2019