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Hispanic American Historical Review (1943) 23 (3): 538.
Published: 01 August 1943
...Edith M. Coulter Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 The California Almanac for 1849 . By Greenleaf Benjamin . Reprinted from the copy in the Huntington Library . ( San Marino, California : Friends of the Huntington Library , 1942 . Pp. 32 . $1.00 .) ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 689–690.
Published: 01 November 2008
... could produce such a clear-eyed, balanced, and original account of the divinatory genre in the Mesoamerican literary tradition. The Central Mexican divinatory corpus consists, by Boone’s count, of 102 pictorial almanacs spread among about a dozen manuscripts, some painted before the conquest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 1974
...” and the “Appearance and history” of the Codex. Chapter 3, the complete commentary, is a page-by-page interpretation of the 2,750 glyphs and the pictures. The contents are divided into three major parts: (1) Seventy-six 260-day almanacs and 364-day counts of divination that indicate good, bad or indifferent days...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 178–179.
Published: 01 February 2002
... Press 2002 In Los años del cambio , Germán Mejía provides a study of structural, demographic, and social change in Colombia’s capital city during the nineteenth century, based substantially on foreign travelers’ accounts, city almanacs, census data, and local government reports. He argues...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 745–746.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the faithful deployed by a devotional press. In a landmark contribution to historiography, Wright-Rios describes this prodigious world of print, producing from the colonial period prayer books, missals, breviaries, sermons, images, instructive pamphlets, almanacs, texts, and books. Central among publishers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2024
... sensation among the attendees, who applauded the Chilean government for embarking on an endeavor so supportive of science. In the same text, Ristenpart noted how he shared his plan for an almanac jointly published with the directors of the observatories in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, revealing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 838.
Published: 01 November 1970
... published prior to 1967. A shortcoming of the work is its failure to indicate criteria for selection of materials; for instance, why include The World Almanac ? Another weakness of the Guide is its repetition of author’s names in the “Analytical Index,” without an alphabetical listing of most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 586.
Published: 01 August 1979
... to almanacs, newspapers, and periodicals and a list of those laws of Jamaica which are not found in the bibliographies of Cundall or Ragatz. The descriptive entries for the manuscripts have been arranged under sixteen headings as follows: historical accounts and collections, descriptive accounts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 590–591.
Published: 01 November 1963
... mass of Inca and non-Inca Peruvian miscellany somewhat like a farmer’s almanac or a medieval bestiary. Baudin insists on calling the Peruvian Indian “mystical” and then almost in the same breath “utilitarian.” Such generalizations are unfortunate. Inca culture was ceremonial, warlike, dour...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 127.
Published: 01 February 1994
... and also study seasonal almanacs. Aveni’s own contribution, chapter three, concludes that the Mayan astronomers used Venus for their lunar calendar, as opposed to the modern use of the sun. Anthropologist Charles A. Hofling and biologist Thomas O’Neil examine “the lady with the question mark on her...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (1): 95–96.
Published: 01 February 1964
... with the initial volume. This first volume, which was available before its companions, contains 7,000 entries grouped in three broad sections: general (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, etc.; studies which seek to define and describe Mexico and the Mexicans; statistical studies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 1968
... useful handbook or almanac on British Honduras today, for either researchers or tourists. Belice, nuestra tierra relates to the Belize dispute and dates from the presidency of Ydígoras Fuentes in Guatemala. According to the preface, the work was completed in March 1958, and is thus contemporaneous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 767–768.
Published: 01 November 1996
... on the context of color. The most valuable section of Love's work is his interpretation of the codex in the context of use by a Maya priest. Love illuminates how the priest might have used specific pages to recount history, prophecy, omens, ritual offerings (especially to God C), almanacs (in relation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 565–566.
Published: 01 August 1996
..., and almanac. Those wishing to study all three main regions of colonial Ecuador would be well advised to start here. Another byproduct is a series of astute and thoughtful summaries of regional socioeconomic conditions and changes. From them, readers can gather a coherent picture of how those regions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 357–358.
Published: 01 May 2004
... are everywhere, as specific cases punctuate more generalized discussions. Treatments of religious beliefs and practices abound, their intertwined Spanish and Mayan elements forming what is described as “an unwritten almanac of folk knowledge” (chap. 1), but with its various elements multiple and not infrequently...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 706–708.
Published: 01 November 2020
... tiempos , which grew out of the medieval almanac tradition in Spain. These repertorios collected a variety of seemingly unrelated information—saints' calendars, astrology, and medicine, for example—that was all nonetheless connected to the theme of time. The Codex Mexicanus, too, has often been seen...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 2008
... in the medieval and early modern Spanish books of secrets, almanacs, and medical treatises, whose Italian counterparts are analyzed by William Eamon in Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton University Press, 1994). Barrera-Osorio sidesteps...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 549–551.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 At the heart of Calculating Brilliance lies the Dresden Codex, one of only four divinatory Maya codices in existence. Scribes used such books to store and recopy calendrical tables and almanacs likely employed for astronomy, meteorology, and prophecy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 719–721.
Published: 01 November 2024
... fell within genres previously underestimated by scholars. Lima's workshops thrived printing invitation cards, prayer books, lottery tickets, almanacs, and other similarly small (in terms of pages) but profitable jobs. Imported books predominantly featured religious content, though practical manuals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 376–378.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... Less common material she consults include the texts of popular décimas and coplas (Spanish-derived poetic forms), and guarachas (a form of popular music); private correspondence; commercial advertisements and other printed ephemera; almanacs; and various forms of popular material culture...