Published Reviews

 

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 38 (2022), pp. 205-208.

Keila Grinberg, A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2019) in Not Even Past.

Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century (New York, Zone Books, 2019), in Not Even Past.

Jens Andermann, The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil, in Not Even Past, September 28.

Elizabeth Hennessy, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019) in Seeing the Woods.

Tobias Rees, After Ethnos (Durham, Duke University Press, 2018), in E3W Review of Books.

Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford, University Press, 2004 [1979]), in Not Even Past.

Jason Seawright, Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2012), in Foro Internacional.

 

Brief Reviews

 

Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2020).

João José Reis, Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Brian A. Stauffer, Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico's Religionero Rebellion (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2019).

Arlette Farge, Le goût de l’archive (París, Points, 1997).

Barbara Weinstein, The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (Durham, Duke University Press, 2015).

Casey Marina Lurtz, From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2019).

Roger Grenier, A Box of Photographs, trans. by Alice Kaplan (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Zephyr L. Frank, Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Albuquerque (University of New Mexico Press, 2004).

Helga Baitenmann, Matters of Justice: Pueblos, The Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Londres, Reaktion Books, 2014).

Elena Poniatowska, Miguel Covarrubias: vida y mundos (Mexico, Ediciones Era, 2004).

C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and A Second Look (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1964).

Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014).

Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).

James Clifford and George E. Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986).

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Nueva York,Verso, 2016).

Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Nueva York, Picador, 2015).

Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Durham, Duke University Press, 2008).