JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES VOLUME 31 PART 1 FEBRUARY 1999 EDITORS JAMES DUNKERLEY Professor of Politics, Institute of.Lalin American Stdies, Universi~y of London LAURENCE WHITEHEAD Offlcia/ Fel/ow in Poiitics, Nuffleld Co/lege, Oxford Contents ARTICLES Elite Politics and Popular Rebellion in the Construction of Post-colonial Order. The case of Maranh~o, Brazil (t8 20-41) MATTHIAS ROHRIG ASSUNçAO The Alfonsín AdministÑtion and the Promotion of Democratic Values in tbe Southern Cone and the Andes 39 DOMINIQUE FOURNIER Obstacles to the Consolidation of the Venezuelan Neighbourhood Movement: National and Local Cleavages 75 STEVE ELLNER Political Bargaining and Democratic Transitions: A Comparison of Nicaragua and El Salvador 99 LAURA NUZZI O'SHAUGHNESSY and MICHAEL DODSON Popular Support for Regional Economic Integration in Latin America 129 MITCHELL A. SELIGSON Trade Reform and Manufacturing Performance in Mexico: from import substitution to dramatic export growth 15! JOHN WEISS Economic Policy and Latin American Culture: Is a Virtuous Circle Possible? 167 DAVID E. HOJ MAN REVIEWS Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (cd.), Cotidiano e vida privado no império (vol. z of Fernando A. Novais (cd.), História da vida privada do Brasil), reviewed by Richard Graham and Sandra Lauderdale Graham 191 Juan Carlos Grosso and Jual Carlos Garavaglia, La región de Puebla y la economía novobispana: las alcabals en la Nueva Espaiia, 1776-1825, reviewed by David Navarrete G. 192 Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (cd.), Tbe Or~gins of Mexican National Politics, 1808-5847, rcviewed by Will Fowler 195 Robert H. Jackson (cd.), Liberals, tbe Church, and Jadian Peasants: Corporate Lands and tbe Challenge of Reform ja Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, reviewed by George Lovell 196 Malcolm Deas, Vidaj Opiniones de Mr. William Wills, vols 1 and II, rcviewed by Rebecca Earle 198 Miguel Tinker Salas, Ja tbe Shadow of tbe Eagles: Sonora and ¡he Transformation of ¡he Border during the Porfiriaio, reviewed by Paul Garner 199 iv Conte,~ 'ts Mary Kay Vaughan, Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Scbools in Mexico: 1930-1940, rcvicwcd by Guillermo Palacios lo! A. Kim Clark, Tbe Redemptive Work: Railwajy and Nation ja Ecuador, 189 7-1930, revicwed by Nils Jacobscn - zo~ Daniel Nugent, Moderai~y al ¡he Edge of Empire: State, Jndividual and Nation in ¡he Northern Peruvian Andes, 188y-1937, rcviewed by Erik Ching 204 Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot, Political Conflict and Constitutional Change ja Puerto Rico, 1898-59 72, rcviewed by Pedro Cab~n 205 Carlos Malamud Rikles, Partidos Políticos ~y Elecciones en la Argentina: la Lzga del Sur ('908-5,5V, reviewed by Eduardo A. Zimmermann zo6 Susana Menéndez, En btisqueda de las mujeres: percepciones sobre género, trabajo j sexualidad, Buenos Aires, ¡900-1930, reviewed by Annc Pérotin-Dumon 207 Jürgen Müller, Nationlso~ialismus ja Lateinamerika: Die Auslandsorganisation der NSDAP in Argentinien, Brasiliea, Chile und Mexiko, i~s-sç~j, rcviewcd by Marcus Klcin zo8 Oscar Battaglini, El medinismo, rcvicwed by Stevc Ellncr 210 J onathan C. Brown, (cd.), Worker's Control ja Latin America, 1930-1979, rcviewed by Alan Angell 212 José A. Cobas and Jorge Duany, Cubans ja Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economj and Cultural Jdeati~y, rcviewed by Maxinc Molyneux 213 A. W. Maldonado, Teadoró ~Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap, reviewed by James L. Dietz 2! 5 Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Jesús Velasco (rda.), Bridging ¡he Border: Transforming Mexico-US Relations, reviewcd by Ana Covarrubias 216 James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh (eds.), Politics of Jllusion: The Baj of Ptgs Invasion Re- examined, rcviewcd by Antoni Kapcia 257 John M. Kirk and Petcr McKenna, Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Netghbor zs8 Poljcj, revicwcd by Hal Klcpak Carlos Escudé, Foreiga Polify Tbeorj ja Menem's Argentina, revicwcd by Hazcl Smith 219 Fabrice Lehoucq, Lucha electoral y sistema política ea Costa Rica, ¡948-1998, rcvicwcd by Kevin Casas-Zamora z zo Kyle Longlcy, The Sparrow and ¡be Hawk: Costa Rica and ¡he United States during ¡he Rise of José Fzgueres, reviewed by Thomas M. Lconard 22! Laura J. Enríquez, Agrarian Reform aad Class Consciousness ja Nicaragua, rcvicwed by Ilja A. Luciak 223 Hugo Cancino Troncoso. Chile: Jglesia ji dictadura 1973-1989: Un estudio sobre el rol político de la Iglesia católiay el conflicto con el r4gimea militar, reviewed by Daniel H. Lcvinc 224 Robert 1. Rotberg (cd.), Haiti Renewed: Political and Economjc Prospects, reviewed by John Bevan 225 Menno Vcllinga (cd.), The Cbanging Role of ¡he State ja Latin America, rcviewcd by David Slater zz6 Henry A. Dietz and Gil Shidlo (eds.), Urban Elections ja Democratic Latin America, revicwcd by Francisco Robles zz8 John O. Browdcr and Brian J. Godfrey, Rainforest Cities: Urbani~atioa, Development aad Clobali~ation of the Bra~iliaa Ama~on, rcvicwcd by David Clcary 230 Andrew Gray, Iadigenous R~ghts and Development: Self-Determination ja an Ama~onian Communi~y, reviewed by Miguel Hilario 231 Miguel A. Centeno and Patricio Silva (cds.), Tbe Politics of Expertise ja Latin America, revicwed by Jorge 1. Domínguez 232 Douglas A. Chalmcrs, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hite, Scott B. Martin, Kerianne Picster, Monique Segarra (eds.), The New Politics of Iaequali(y in Lot ja Amer,ca: Retbiaking Participation and Representation, reviewed by Olivier Dab~ne 234 José Vicente Zevallos (cd.), Estrategias para reducir la pobre~7): Social Citizenship in the Atomised Market Regime 429 LOUI5E MAAGH COMMENTARY Irruptions of Memory: Espressive Politics in Chile~s Transition to Democracy 473 ALEXANDER WILDE REVIEWS Herbert 5. Klein, Tbe American Fiaances of ¡be Spanisb Empire: Royal Jacame aad Expeaditures ja Colonial Mexico, Peru ana' Bolivia, ¡68o-s8o~, reviewed by John Fisher Hans-Joachim Kónig asid Stefan Rinke (eds.), Traasatlantiscbe Pen of Ah Peor Guatemalans, reviewed by Rachel Sieder 77Z Charles D. Brockett, Latid, Power, and Pover~y: Agrariaa Transformation aad Pohitical Conflict iii Central America, reviewed by William C. Thiesenhusen 774 Lucy Taylor, Citi~easbtp, Partic:pation and Democracy: Cbanging ~ynamics iii Chile and Argentina, reviewed by Alexandra Barahona de Brito 775 Victoria E. Rodríguez, Women's Participation iii Mexican Pohiticai Life, reviewed by Georgina Waylen 776 Michael Kaufman asid Haroldo Dula Alfonso (eds.), Communt~y Power and Grassroots Democracy: Tbe Transformation of Social Li/e, reviewed by Maxine Molyneux 777 Paul W. Drake asid Mathew D. McCubbins (eds.), Tibe Origuns of Liber(y: Pohitical ana' Economic Liberali~ation iii tbe Madera World, reviewed by Paul Cammack 779 Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio (eds.), Mexico under Zedilla, reviewed by Nikki Craske 780 C. Richard Nelson and Kenneth Weisbrodc, Reversing Relations witb Former Adversarios: U.S. Fore~gn Pohi~y after tbe Cold War, reviewed by Lars Schoultz 78Z Donna Rich Kaplowitz, Anatomji of a Failed Embargo: U.S. Sanctioas Agauast Cuba, reviewed by Richard A. Nuccio 783 Sergio Aguayo, Mjitbs ana' [MislPerceptions: Changung U.S. Elije Visions of Mexico, reviewed by Roderic Ai Camp 783 Contents y Nancy Caro Hollander, Lave in a Time of Hate: Liberation P~ycibology iii Latin America, reviewed by Elizabeth John 786 Jeffrey M. Pilcher, ¡Que vivan los tamales!: Food ana' tibe Makiag of Mexican Identify, reviewed by Marjorie Ross 788 NEW BOOKS RECEIVED 791 VOLUME 32 PART 1 FEBRUARY 2000 Contents ARTICLES The Alchemy of Modernity. Alonso Barba's Copper Cauldrons asid the Independence of Bohivian Metallurgy (I79o-I89o) TRISTAN PLATT The Royalist Reginie jo the Viceroyalty of Peru, t8zo-, 824 55 JOHN R. FISHER The Sound of the Pututos: Politicisation asid Indigenous Rebelhions jo Bolivia, 1826-1921 MARTA IRUROZQUI Contesting Hybridity: Evangelistas asid Kataristas in Highland Bolivia ''5 ANDREW CANESSA The Dynamics of Aymara Duahity: Change and Continuity jo Sociopolitical Structures in the Bolivian Andes 145 ASTVALDUR ASTVALDSSON The Unión Democrática y Popular Government and the Crisis of the Bolivian Left (1982-1985) '75 ENRIQUE IEANEZ ROJO A Political Analysis of Legal Plurahism in Bolivia asid Colombia 207 DONNA LEE VAN COTT Sttugghing against Decline: British Business in Chile, ~ 235 JONATHAN R. EARTON REVIEWS David Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: Tbe American ludian Contact Population Debate, reviewed by Linda A. Newson z6~ Steven C. Topik, Trade aad Guaboats: Tibe United States ana' Bra~il in the Age of Empire, reviewed by Sonny B. Davis z66 Michael Edward Stanfield, Red Rubber, Bleedung Treos: Violence, Slaverji, ana' Empire ja Northwest Amazonia, ¡870-1933 and Robin M. Wright, Cosmos, Self, ana' Historji iii Baniwa Religioa: For Tbose Unbora, reviewed by Peter Rivi~re z68 Patricio Valdivieso, Eia Weg r