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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 May 1987
... in all of the essays in this volume is movement through life’s transitions as a complex metaphorical process whereby both animal and human images are elaborated upon” (p. 286). In all, these varied views concerning animal myths and metaphors provide a valuable contribution, due not to the fact...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 10798119.
Published: 05 July 2023
...Netzahualcóyotl Luis Gutiérrez netzagtz@gmail.com The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World . By Thomas Rath . Cambridge Latin American Studies. New York : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Table...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 671–673.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Helen Cowie Centering Animals in Latin American History . Edited by Few Martha and Tortorici Zeb . Foreword by Fudge Erica . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 391 pp. Paper , $26.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 181.
Published: 01 February 1968
...O. P. S. Plants, Animals, and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies. An Ecological Study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla . By Harris David R. . Berkeley , 1965 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 628.
Published: 01 August 1991
... on the Sea by the Author; the Behavior of Villegagnon in That Country; and the Customs and Strange Ways of Life of the American Savages; Together with the Description of Various Animals, Trees, Plants, and Other Singular Things Completely Unknown over Here . By De Léry Jean . Translation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 10797867.
Published: 05 July 2023
...Helen Cowie Book Reviews / Fifteenth Seventeenth Centuries 713 The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance. By mackenzie cooley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 353 pp. Paper, $37.50. Were there alpacas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 613–649.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that animated national discourses around education were felt (and acted upon) locally. The article analyzes detailed responses submitted by priests to an 1885 archiepiscopal questionnaire on schooling in their parishes. Although some priests reported vehement opposition to teaching doctrine on the part...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 5–39.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of an agropastoral district in the northwest quadrant of the basin, with pueblos de indios , haciendas, and ranchos as its neighbors. The drainage curtailed everyone’s access to and usufruct of land and water for cultivation and animal husbandry in this district by diminishing their access to these inputs. However...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 95–129.
Published: 01 February 2017
... challenged this open-door policy, culminating with the 1969 nationalization of Gulf Oil's properties by the military regime of Alfredo Ovando Candía. Ironically, though, the nationalization was driven partly by the same conservative logic that had animated the MNR's liberalization, in that Ovando favored...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 10798101.
Published: 05 July 2023
.... The exquisite quality of the fiber and the tractable nature of this new hybrid animal gave rise to the hope that it might become a valuable resource, and therefore Peru was indebted to the priest and his service on behalf of the young republic. This essay examines Cabrera's venture, the creation of the paco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 257–266.
Published: 01 May 1965
... the area was thickly wooded and abounded in predatory animals, and because many of them were lost owing to a shortage of trained herders. In the brush country of South Texas, however, cattle thrived and became a primary source of food for the early Texans. Livestock also constituted the principal wealth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 603–635.
Published: 01 November 2012
... as the actors and institutions that shaped the conditions of the transborder exchange. Such conditions allowed for continuity in livestock trading amid changing circumstances. The distinct levels of cattle-ranching development in the two countries shaped the physical characteristics of the traded animals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., precious stones, and exotic animals and birds already arriving from the New World. His lengthy, itemized catalogue of trees, plants, herbs, roots, saps, gums, fruits, seeds, liquors, and stones underscored the diversity and proliferation of an untapped source of wealth, which, he argued, promised an even...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 590–591.
Published: 01 August 2012
... 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Laws of Chance traces the trajectory of the Brazilian jogo do bicho (the animal game) from its 1892 birth in Rio de Janeiro’s zoo to its development in the city’s underworld and public life during the early twentieth century. Originally a raffle, the animal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 30–51.
Published: 01 February 1970
...-contained community. 3 This transport for subsistence exchanges was fundamentally unspecialized. Since the transfer of such goods was seasonal or casual, the carriers commonly used idle farm resources —their own labor, mules, and less often carts. Pack-animal carriers could normally provide only limited...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 10798065.
Published: 05 July 2023
... that Atlantic-centered studies of the Spanish empire tend to overlook. Finally, and perhaps most signi cantly, The Perfection ofNature explores the ways in which ideas about animal breeding in uenced evolving theories about heredity and difference in humans. Cooley notes parallels between notions of breed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 August 1987
...-states on the European model, raise livestock and crops mostly of Old World origin, and, in short, are Neo-Europeans. The previous inhabitants of the temperate lands, plants and animals included, and of some of the tropical lands, have receded or disappeared before the Eurasian and African invaders...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 369–371.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of rebellion into a reality, but it was the stories of rain gods that served as a blueprint for how to do so. At the heart of this study are stories of rain gods who collectively organized to attack water-dwelling animals ( achane ), the nonhuman companions of non-Nahua settlers and local authorities who...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 329–331.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that food plants should also be recognized as “dynamic actors, mediators, and messengers” (p. 149). Morell-Hart explains how ancient Maya's plant-based diet was complemented by the intake of animal protein. Petra Cunningham-Smith, Ashley Sharpe, Arianne Boileau, Erin Kennedy Thornton, and Kitty Emery build...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 February 1980
... and provocative book. McNeill calls both parasitism: macro and micro. Macroparasitism is the exploitation of larger animals by each other and, for the purposes of this study, most of all the exploitation of man by man. Initially the seizure of products and persons, it has become less starkly one-sided...
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