Rese as/Book Reviews

Pistoleros and Popular Movements. The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca, by Benjamin T. Smith; reviewed by Wil Pansters, p.128 Exceptional Violence. Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica, by Deborah A. Thomas; reviewed by Gert Oostindie, p. 130 The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers), compilado por Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby; reviewed by Manuela Camus, p. 131 The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts; reviewed by Peadar Kirby, p. 133 Latin America in the 21st Century: Nations, Regions, Globalization, by Gian Luca Gardini; reviewed by Daniel Hellinger, p. 134 The New Politics of Protest, by Roberta Rice; reviewed by Michiel Baud, p. 136 Mercury, mining and empire. The human and ecological cost of colonial silver mining in the Andes, por Nicholas Robins; reviewed by Raquel Gil Montero, p. 138 Bolivia. Refounding the Nation, by Kepa Artaraz; reviewed by Isabella Margerita Radhuber, p. 139 Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War, by Tanya Harmer; reviewed by Gisela Cramer, p. 141 The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America. A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights, compilado por Javier Corrales y Mario Pecheny; reviewed by José Carlos G. Aguiar, p. 144