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Piety and public space : the cemetery campaign in Veracruz, 1789-1810 / Pamela Voekel -- Church, Humboldt, and Darwin : the tension and harmony of art and science / Stephen Jay Gould -- Black kings, blackface carnival, and nineteenth-century origins of the tango / John Charles Chasteen -- Cartas y cartas, compadre-- : love and other letters from Río Frío / William E. French -- Peddling the pampas : Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 / Ingrid E. Fey -- Death and disorder in Mexico City : the state funeral of Manuel Romero Rubio / Matthew D. Esposito -- Images of Indians in the construction of Ecuadorian identity at the end of the nineteenth century / Blanca Muratorio -- Many chefs in the national kitchen : cookbooks and identity in nineteenth-century Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- The new order : diversions and modernization in turn-of-the-century Lima / Fanni Mu, Oz Cabrejo -- From the ruins of the ancien régime : Mexico's monument to the revolution / Thomas L. Benjamin -- Racial parity and national humor : Carmen Miranda's samba performances, 1930-1939 / Darien J. Davis -- Oil, race, and calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990 / Graham E.L. Holton -- The dictator's seduction : gender and state spectacle during the Trujillo regime / Lauren H. Derby -- En el corazón del pueblo : Pedro Infante's funeral, the pueblo motif, and the contest over his legacy / Sal Acosta -- Nostalgia for the future : the new song movement in Nicaragua / Janet L. Sturman. |
