Book Reviews

Edward B. Barbier, Scarcity and Frontiers: How economies have developed through natural resource exploitation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 – for Journal of Global History, 2012

Michael P. Costeloe, Bubbles and Bonanzas: British Investors and Investments in Mexico, 1821-1860, Lanham & Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2011 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2012

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World, Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2012

Gillian McGillivray, Blazing Cane: sugar communities, class, and state formation in Cuba, 1868-1959, Durham: Duke University Press, 2009 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2011

Patricia Juarez-Dappe, When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876-1916, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2011

Antonio Santamaría García & Consuelo Naranjo Orovio (eds), Más allá del azúcar: política, diversificación y prácticas económicas en Cuba, 1878-1930, Madrid: Doce Calles, 2010 –for Journal of Latin American Studies, 2010

Leida Fernández Prieto, Cuba Agrícola: Mito y Tradición, 1878-1920, Madrid: CSIC, 2005 and Espacio de poder, ciencia y agricultura en Cuba: el Círculo de Hacendados, 1878-1917, Madrid: CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, 2008, – for Journal of Latin American Studies, 2010

Andrea O’Reilly Herrera (ed.), Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced, Albany: SUNY Press, 2007, – for Bulletin of Latin American Research,28:4 (October 2009), pp.558-9

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006 – for Caribbean Studies, 2009

Alexander I. Gray & Antoni Kapcia (eds), The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28:4 (October 2009), pp.559-60

H. Michael Erisman & John M. Kirk, Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact of the ‘Special Period’, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006 – for Bulletin of Latin American Research, 27:3 (2008)

Gera C. Burton, Ambivalence and the Postcolonial Subject: The Strategic Alliance of Juan Francisco Manzano and Richard Robert Madden, New York: Peter Lang, 2004 – for Slavery and Abolition, 2006

Joseph L. Scarpaci, Roberto Segre & Mario Coyula, Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis, Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002 – for Caribbean Studies, 2006

Susan J. Fernández, Encumbered Cuba: Capital Markets and Revolt, 1878-1895, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002 – for Caribbean Studies, 2004

Luis Martínez-Fernández (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture, Westport CT: Greenwood, 2003 – for Journal of Latin American Studies, 2004

María Elena Díáz, The Virgin, the King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 – for Slavery and Abolition, December 2004

Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation for All, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001 – for Journal of Latin American Studies, 35 (2003), pp.655-656

Oscar Zanetti & Alejandro Garcia, Sugar and Railroads, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998 – for Journal of Latin American Studies, 33 (2001), pp.660-662

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