Richard Feinberg

Politics & Society   January/February 2020 Capsule Review

Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism

Anthropologists and ethnomusicologists explore the sounds and music of the luxury resorts that are booming all over the Caribbean

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Politics & Society   January/February 2020 Capsule Review

May You Live in Interesting Times

At the 58th Venice Biennale, Latin American and Caribbean countries hosted 13 of the 87 national pavilions.

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Politics & Society   January/February 2020 Capsule Review

Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God

Smith attributes the reactionary backlash in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America to the emergence of issues that trigger fear among evangelicals.

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Economics   January/February 2020 Capsule Review

The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament

Patterson explores the paradoxes of his native Jamaica in a series of stimulating essays.

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Economics   January/February 2020 Capsule Review

Two Books on Globalization

Alfredo Toro Hardy, Ricardo Ernst, and Jerry Haar discuss the role globalization has played in Latin America.

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Politics & Society   November/December 2019 Capsule Review

Rojo

This thoughtful, disturbing melodrama is set in a nondescript provincial town in Argentina in 1975.

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Pre-1932 Administration   November/December 2019 Capsule Review

The Caribbean Policy of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration: Foreshadowing an Informal Empire

McCullough traces opposing visions of how the United States should project its power in the Caribbean—visions which still lie at the heart of foreign policy debates...

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Politics & Society   November/December 2019 Capsule Review

Lost Children Archive: A Novel

Luiselli conjures a couple with two young children, aged ten and five, on a long road trip from New York to the southwestern United States in search of the Apache...

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Politics & Society   November/December 2019 Capsule Review

Two Books on Latin American History

Two scholars attempt to weave together narratives about the region south of the Rio Grande.

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Politics & Society   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York

Lisandro Pérez vividly describes how the tightly knit Cuban émigré community in New York interacted with and influenced the homeland.

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Johnson Administration   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Thomas C. Mann: President Johnson, the Cold War, and the Restructuring of Latin American Foreign Policy

Thomas Turnstall Allcock rehabilitates the reputation of Thomas C. Mann, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s senior adviser on Latin America.

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Refugees & Migration   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border

In this searing eyewitness report on the situation at the U.S.-Mexican border, John Carlos Frey argues that long-standing U.S. policies to deter illegal immigration by...

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U.S. Foreign Policy   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions

In this comprehensive and thoughtful book, R. Evan Ellis underscores the serious threat to U.S. national interests posed by organized criminal groups in Latin America.

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Law & Institutions   September/October 2019 Capsule Review

When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States

In this welcome antidote to the many dire warnings that Trump could end liberal democracy in the United States, a group of seasoned political scientists express...

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Cuba   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Cuban Foreign Policy: Transformation Under Raúl Castro

A volume of essays edited by H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk struggles to decide whether the foreign policies of Raúl Castro represented continuity or a break with...

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Crime & Drugs   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America

Deborah J. Yashar seeks to explain the alarming rise in violence in many Latin American countries.

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Americas   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas

Eric Rutkow explores the history of the Pan-American Highway. 

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Refugees & Migration   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Two Books on Immigration

Beth C. Caldwell argues that citizenship should be based on a person’s cultural associations rather than on national boundaries. Noelle Kateri Brigden catalogs the...

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U.S. Foreign Policy   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

The Peace Corps and Latin America: In the Last Mile of U.S. Foreign Policy

Thomas J. Nisley offers an account of the Peace Corps program in Latin America since its inception in the early 1960s.

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Economic Development   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

Desarrollo, integración e igualdad: La respuesta de Centroamérica a la crisis de la globalización (Development, integration, and equality: The response of Central America to the crisis of globalization)

Richard Feinberg reviews a comprehensive, data-rich account of the social and economic progress of Central America since 1960, with an emphasis on the last five years.

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