"Excellent collection of short essays, some original and some translated, on state and ethnicity in 19th-century Central America. Contributors include Demyky, Gudmundson, Taracena, Acuña, Palmer, Lindo-Fuentes, Barahona, Woodward, Euraque, Little-Siebold, Lauria, and Gould"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/