Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era (review)
While the vast bibliography contained in this study certainly points to a new zenith in the study of Spanish American cities, most of the "new" works date only to the 1990s, and many are articles rather than monographs. As Lucena Giraldo rightfully points out, the urbanization process that took place in the New World between 1492 and 1810 was enormous and, as Richard Morse once noted, Spanish colonization in the New World created a vast system of administration, justice, and evangelization cemented in a complex urban base. This volume has an invaluable bibliography and will appeal to those interested not only in the history of cities in Spanish America, but also general processes of urbanization and empire building.