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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 824–825.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Mark A. Burkholder “By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age . By Owens J. B. . Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe, no. 3 . Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2005 . Maps. Notes. Glossary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 169–171.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Richard J. Salvucci Abstract Cliometrics, the union of history and economics, has impressive successes to its credit. But it also displays a worrisome disregard for historical nuance, sometimes to the point of caricature. “Bargaining for Absolutism” by Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe looks...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Frank “Trey” Proctor, III Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 . By Bennett Herman L. . Blacks in the Diaspora . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2003 . Maps. Table. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . x , 275...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 173–209.
Published: 01 May 2008
... all parties, but in order to obtain more revenues the crown had to surrender sovereign power and concede greater room to the representation of local interests. Unlike in New Granada, where a nominally all-powerful visitador failed utterly, the outcome of bargained absolutism resulted in an optimal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 300–302.
Published: 01 May 1965
... , 1964 . St. Martin’s Press, Inc . Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 411 . $7.95 . Spain Under the Hapsburgs , Vol. I. Empire and Absolutism, 1516-1598 . By Lynch John . New York , 1964 . Oxford University Press . Notes. Illustrations. Maps. Indices . Pp. 374 . $7.50...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 May 2008
...William R. Summerhill Abstract In “Bargaining for Absolutism,” Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe argue three points of considerable interest to historians: political absolutism in Castile did not extend to fiscal matters; fiscal relations within Spain and its empire were characterized...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the archipelago. By showing that New Spain played a central role in sculpting Spain's relationship with her most remote possession, this article contributes to the scholarship that challenges the interpretation of the absolutist state as absolute. This transportation process also illuminates that the history...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 737–738.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of absolution in confession, this struggle for restitution became a lifelong enterprise for the friar. As the sacrament of confession and its resulting absolution were necessary for salvation, Las Casas found it a useful tool in promoting his agenda. Those Spaniards unwilling to give up their native slaves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 741–743.
Published: 01 November 2004
... absolutist, he was determined to protect the American colonies for his imprisoned king. However, his absolutism was less than total, which may help to explain his effectiveness. In some areas he displayed an enlightened side, permitting change as long as it presented no threat to Spanish rule. One such area...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 177–178.
Published: 01 February 1976
.... This thoroughly researched book is bound to remain the authoritative study on what one might with propriety call the Portuguese Edmund Burke. Liberalism was his bête noir , and he saw the day when the new system would be superseded by absolute monarchies, even in the United States and in Brazil. For him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1975
... at Villalar on April 23, 1521, made possible the construction of royal absolutism. The hermandades of which this movement was the last political expression represented a medieval constitutional tradition that preceded absolutism. For that reason the first generation of Spanish Liberals at the beginning...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 357–358.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of the violence that permeated Argentine culture. Foster’s analysis of how writers and ordinary citizens alike have survived beyond fear under the darkness of absolute power makes this a major work on violence in Argentine literature. It is a beautifully written and thought-provoking meditation on violence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (4): 595–624.
Published: 01 November 1978
... been grouped according to the classification suggested by Mark D. Szuchman and Eugene F. Sofer and ranked in absolute and percentage terms for each of the city’s wards (see Table II ). 21 The eight principal subgroups were also aggregated for totals of blue collars (working class), nonmanuals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 February 1981
... was never an absolute reality—only an illusion that was valuable in popularizing the Good Neighbor principle” (p. 39). From this point of view, the book is a useful, if not entirely reliable, chronological survey of the Latin American policies of the United States for the period in question...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 November 1967
... of the political thought of Suárez, perhaps the most interesting aspect of his thinking for the modern secular layman. At the instigation of Pope Paul V, Suárez denounced the concept of personal absolutism proclaimed by James I of England, who required that his subjects take a “loyalty oath” upholding...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 February 1991
... as “an absolutely rigid system ... in which the slave appears as an equally absolute victim” (p. 7) or, conversely, against other historians who have emphasized “the epic heroism of rebellion” (p. 7). Most Brazilian slaves, the authors claim, were not victims or heroes, but lived out their lives between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 211–218.
Published: 01 May 2008
... by presenting a justifiable critique of the extreme simplification to be found in texts written by economists (such as Douglass North) and other social scientists that depict the Spanish absolute monarchy as all powerful and almost absolutely rigid and unchanging from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 254–272.
Published: 01 May 1982
... state and resisted the Bourbons’ political philosophy.” 1 The king was señor, or lord, to whom, according to Spanish political philosophy, the nation at some time in the remote past had transferred authority. 2 He was limited in his exercise of absolute authority by the precepts of Thomism, which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 600–601.
Published: 01 August 1985
... the political and economic consequences of all the above into the 1970s and 1980s. The result was the emergence of a virtual dictatorship, a state of absolute economic and political crisis, and the absolute dependence of the regime (which came to power as a result of the efforts and actions of the United States...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 August 1972
... in the minds of many churchmen as well as other segments of society as a symbol of absolutism, Church pre-eminence, and bulwark against insidious liberal ideas. The exaltados resented, among other things, Ferdinand’s refusal, although exercising absolute authority, to revoke the 1820 decree, and even more...
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