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Book Reviews

  • Ismael García-Colón. Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms. (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020). Centro Journal. 33:2, 2022.
  • Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres. Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948. (Cambridge University Press. 2018). Cuban Studies, Volume 51, 2022.
  • Sam Erman. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Centro Journal. 2021.
  • Edgardo Melendez. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States. (The Ohio State University Press. 2017). Caribbean Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1, 2020, Pp. 189-192.
  • Eric Ching & Hector Lindo. Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980 (University of New Press, 2011).  The American Historical Review. Volume 118, Issue 1, 2013. Pp. 225-226.
  • José Ramón Sánchez. Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States (New York University Press, 2007).  Centro Journal, 2008
  • Elizabeth Dore. Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2006), A Contra Corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 2008, 305-309.
  • Victor Manuel Rodriguez. Latino Politics in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 2005). Centro Journal, 2008.
  • Julie Charlip. Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930. (Ohio Univ Press 2003).  Americas, 2004.
  • Steve Striffler. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), Labor History.
  • Frabrice Lehoucq and Iván Molina Jiménez. Urnas de lo inesperado: fraude electoral y lucha política en Costa Rica: 1901-1948. (San José, C.R. Edit. Universidad de Costa Rica. 1999). The Americas, 2002.
  • Vincent C. Peloso, Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1999, Labor History 42:1, 2001.
  • Revisiting the Reinterpretation:  Dario Enrique’s “Reinterpreting the Banana Republic:  Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972” (Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996), Mesoamerica, December 2001.
  • Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez. Experiencias contrastadas: industrialización y conflictos en los textiles del centro-oriente de México, 1884-1917 (México: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos; Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2000), The Americas.
  • Virginia Gudea. La insurgencia en el Departamento del Norte: Los Llanos de Apan y la Sierra de Puebla, 1810-1816 (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996), Historia de Mexico–an online network of specialists.
  • Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter, Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador’s Transition to Democracy (Pittsburgh: University Press, 1997), Journal of Developing Areas,
  • Iván Molina Jimenez and Steven Palmer, eds. El paso del cometa: Estado, política y culturas populares en Costa Rica (1800-1950) (San Jose: Editorial Porvenir-Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1994), Hispanic American Historical Review,
  • William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson & Mario Samper Kutschbach, eds.  Coffee Society and Power in Latin America.  (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), Food and Foodways and Revista de Historia.
  • Jeff Gould, To Lead as Equals:  Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990), Labor History, (Summer 1992) 33: 418-420.