Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956. By Reinaldo L. Roman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 273 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3141-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5836-3.)

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