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Hispanic American Historical Review (1943) 23 (2): 304–305.
Published: 01 May 1943
...George P. Hammond Pichardo’s Treatise on the Limits of Louisiana and Texas. An Argumentative Historical Treatise with Reference to the Verification of the True Limits of the Provinces of Louisiana and Texas; Written by Father José Antonio Pichardo, of the Congregation of the Oratory of San...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 319–353.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the principles of the revolution. Although the Christian idioms presented by the prosecution support recent scholarly arguments regarding deist tendencies within revolutionary ideologies, this article points out that the government's emphasis on its spiritual conviction sought to bolster the claim...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 215–245.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and image. Through antiquity and the control of its remains, Porfirian elites sought to present Mexico as a modern, scientific, and sovereign nation with a sophisticated, ancient past. They based the government’s right to the artifacts on arguments that rested on appeals to nation and science. This article...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 75–108.
Published: 01 February 2010
... intake as the new entitlement of the working classes to what had previously been a “luxury food.” Finally, the analysis demonstrates that Peronism collected and instrumentally continued or redefined key arguments circulating in Argentine popular culture and medical and leftist discourses, including...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 173–209.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Alejandra Irigoin; Regina Grafe Abstract Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical “experiment” underpins the core argument of new institutional economic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 May 2018
... from the pamphlet's well-reasoned arguments to its places of production, reception, and regulation, the article provides insight into how freedom of the press was implemented, manipulated, and debated on the ground. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Outcry erupted from Mexico's...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 749–750.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., $54.95 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Jesús Sanjurjo posits that the end of the slave trade to the Spanish empire was largely the result of “international political negotiations that excluded the Spanish authorities and ignored Spanish political actors”—an argument that echoes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 702–703.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Timothy E. Anna With only 158 pages of text, the argument has been highly compressed. I sorely felt the need for an accompanying political narrative and for full names of the few individual leaders referred to in the text. Most of all, I wanted to see some of the individual cases of merchants...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 316–318.
Published: 01 May 2014
... includes some insightful observations and analyses but fails to deliver on the promise of its overall argument. The first three chapters examine a lesser-known work, La limpieza no manchada (1618), by the famous playwright Félix Lope de Vega. This comedia was unusual for its subject matter...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 733–734.
Published: 01 November 2005
... skillfully explores the complex events and attitudes that led to their violent repression. Grandin’s argument requires him to focus on certain aspects of the Guatemalan experience, and this might prompt some quibbles about some of his assessments. There is a tendency to exaggerate the role of the PGT...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 809–810.
Published: 01 November 1989
... complained that in our book “ideological advocacy sometimes masquerades as balanced scholarship.” Cortés then takes issue with us for putting forward the “warmed-over, unconvincing arguments of conservative economist Thomas Sowell. ” I regard myself as a conservative, and I see nothing wrong in putting...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (4): 709–712.
Published: 01 November 1978
... directly and eloquently to the larger issue of the role of quantitative methods in historical investigations where the data are exiguous and indirect. In this regard, he urges that my arguments be “firmly resisted.” He believes, too, that I have been unfair in suggesting that Borah and Cook’s analysis...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 February 2001
... pp. Cloth , $45 . Paper , $19.95 . Much of the argumentative weight of the book is dedicated to debunking the master narrative. This is one of the book’s strengths, reflecting the originality and importance of Lauria’s research. It can be a deficiency, however, when local variation is made...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 537–539.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Laura Leibman After an introduction that stages his argument, Silverstein proceeds to an overview of how merchants in Cuba became “tarnish[ed]” with “overtones of Jewishness” (p. 16). Silverstein reveals how the categories Jewish and black interacted and became associated with one another...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 August 2016
... classes” (p. xiv). Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the most forceful new arguments come on the literary side, while the social-historical research mostly complements and reinforces the existing historiography. Building from theoretical work (by Benedict Anderson and Timothy Brennan) on the importance...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 166–167.
Published: 01 February 2000
... taken from less-than-reliable sources. In reminding us that these estimates are actually built on flimsy presuppositions that often involve circular reasoning, the author has provided a much-needed reality check for this field. Unfortunately, his argument suffers from overkill. Henige is at his best...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 February 2013
... relatively short but exceedingly convoluted chapters, Joseph C. Miller reviews some 22,000 years of human history to make a great number of questionable assertions. The titles of the chapters illustrate the trajectory of the argument: “The Problem of Slavery as History,” “History as a Problem of Slaving...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 372–374.
Published: 01 May 1970
...” finally gained control, the book suggests that in the struggle to direct the Revolution the revolutionary intellectuals” beat themselves. The argument, which comes not so much from history as from sociology, is that in general intellectuals are politically incohesive. Forming “a recognizable social group...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Sylvia Sellers-García These essays succeed in complicating as well as tempering, raising new questions and suggesting new directions, particularly for readers who focus on nineteenth-century Central America or on independence movements across Spanish America. A similar tempering argument...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 2001
... time and space in Mesoamerica, but—as shown in chapter 5—across time and space in the Old World as well. The sweep of Florescano’s argumentation raises a number of important issues about cultural change and continuity. I will focus on two. First, to use Marshall Sahlins’s phrasing, how can one...
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