Reviews
"A very welcome addition to the historiography, not only because it addresses a subject that has been forgotten for far too long, but because it does so by concentrating on the particularly important question of race and ethnicity."
"Focusing in particular on the question of social mobility as it was offered to subaltern groups, the book uncovers the different ways in which the army actually altered the social structure of Latin America."
"A collection of thoughtful and original studies on the complex and subtle manner in which race and ethnicity informed and influenced the nation-building process in Latin America during the Liberal Period."
--Journal of Latin American Studies
"Reveal[s] myriad ways that Indians and Afro-Latin Americans contributed to nation-state formation and gained ambivalent inclusion as citizens." … "Advances our knowledge of subaltern participation in nation-state formation."
--Hispanic American Historical Review