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Kenneth Maxwell

Capsule Review
May/Jun
2004
The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
May/Jun
2004
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
May/Jun
2004
Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe; Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
May/Jun
2004
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900, Vol. I: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
May/Jun
2004
Soldiers of the Pátria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
Latin America's Wars, Vol. 1: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-- 1899; Latin America's Wars, Vol. 2: The Age of the Professional Soldier, 1900 -- 2001
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2004
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
Cardoso's Brazil: A Land for Sale
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
Spanish Direct Investment in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities
Kenneth Maxwell
Response
Jan/Feb
2004
Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate Over U.S. Complicity
William D. Rogers & Kenneth Maxwell

Former Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers disputes charges of U.S. complicity in the rise and rule of Pinochet; Kenneth Maxwell replies.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
After the Washington Consensus: Restoring Growth and Reform in Latin America; Post-stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
Canada Among Nations 2003: Coping With the American Colossus; September 11: Consequences for Canada
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
Greater America: A New Partnership for the Americas in the Twenty-first Century
Kenneth Maxwell
Review Essay
Nov/Dec
2003
The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973
Kenneth Maxwell

Thirty years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, The Pinochet File, a "dossier" of declassified documents, lays out the true U.S. role.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2003
Foreign Assistance: U.S. Democracy Programs in Six Latin American Countries Have Yielded Modest Results (Report to Congressional Requesters)
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2003
Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2003
Cuba the Morning After: Confronting Castro's Legacy; Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition
Kenneth Maxwell
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2003
Trandsotming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective
Kenneth Maxwell
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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