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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 189.
Published: 01 February 1972
...K. E. H. Regional Economic Development: The River Basin Approach in Mexico . By Barkin David and King Timothy . Cambridge, England , 1970 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Latin American Studies, 7 . Tables. Figures. Appendices. Index . Pp. x , 262 . $10.50...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 563–564.
Published: 01 August 2019
... to the Pacific. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont . By John L. Kessell . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2017 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 598–599.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Franklin W. Knight Crises in the Caribbean Basin . Edited by Tardanico Richard . Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications , 1987 . Tables. Notes. Bibliographies . Pp. 263 . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 This book presents no coherent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1952) 32 (3): 397–398.
Published: 01 August 1952
...Fulmer Mood Copyright 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Pageant in the Wilderness, the Story of the Escalante Expedition to the Interior Basin, 1776, including the Diary and Itinerary of Father Escalante . Translated and edited, with an introduction, by Bolton Herbert E...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 602–603.
Published: 01 November 1967
...Maury D. Baker Highways into the Upper Amazon Basin. Pioneer Lands in Southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru . By Hegen Edmund Edward . Gainesville , 1966 . University of Florida Press . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 168 . Paper . $3.75...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (2): 385–386.
Published: 01 May 1983
... landscapes” make this geography rather than history. Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Creation of a Mexican Landscape: Territorial Organization and Settlement in the Eastern Puebla Basin, 1520-1605 . By Licate Jack A. . Chicago : University of Chicago, Dept, of Geography...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 587.
Published: 01 November 1963
...Donald E. Worcester Exploring the Great Basin . By Cline Gloria Griffen . Norman, Oklahoma , 1963 . University of Oklahoma Press . The American Exploration and Travel Series . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 254 . $4.95 . Copyright 1963 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 May 1968
... coast of North America. The most important scientific voyage organized by Spain, that of Malaspina, took place one decade after Cook’s death. Like the explorers of the ocean the contributors to The Pacific Basin belong to various nationalities. The book is presented as an outgrowth of a symposium...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 842–843.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Ivelaw L. Griffith Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order . By Grugel Jean . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1995 . Map. Tables. Bibliography. Index . xi , 270 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Paper , $16.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Stephen B. Brush The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization . By Sanders William T. , Parsons Jeffrey R. , and Santley Robert S. . New York : Academic Press , 1979 . Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 561...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 41–71.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of land and resource use — a central but little-studied axis of revolutionary state formation and development. The Valley of Mexico in the late nineteenth century was a closed basin composed of three major lakes: Texcoco, Chalco, and Xochimilco. Nourished by rainwater from the surrounding mountains...
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Published: 01 February 2012
Figure 1 The Desagüe de Huehuetoca in the northwest quadrant of the basin of Mexico. Sources: Mexico, Junta Directiva del Desagüe del Valle de México, Memoria histórica, técnica y administrativa de las obras del Desagüe del valle de México, 1449 – 1900 (Mexico City: Tip. de la Oficina More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 5–39.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Figure 1 The Desagüe de Huehuetoca in the northwest quadrant of the basin of Mexico. Sources: Mexico, Junta Directiva del Desagüe del Valle de México, Memoria histórica, técnica y administrativa de las obras del Desagüe del valle de México, 1449 – 1900 (Mexico City: Tip. de la Oficina...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Elinore M. Barrett Generous use is made of maps, and detailed data on the environment, resources, settlements, and productivity of the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin are included in five appendixes, which make up about one-third of this monograph. Although conclusions seem tenuous in view...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 551–552.
Published: 01 August 1996
... notable is the paper by Cristina Mapes, Victor Toledo, Narciso Barreda, and Javier Caballero, a thorough, data-rich review of the abundant literature on agriculture in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin. Lorenzo Ochoa is unconvinced that intensive agriculture was as widespread in the lowland Maya area as some...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 427–429.
Published: 01 August 1963
... of the forest? This paradise does not exist. The tropical forest is, rather, a ‘green hell,’ in which it is very easy for beast and bird to conceal themselves behind the rank foliage.” Such a truthful photographer has given us a truthful picture of the whole basin—jungle, mountains, people, and everything...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 558–559.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and empirical contours of the hydrologic basin of Puebla from the colonial period to the present. Using archival sources, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), charts, and graphs, the chapters contain comprehensive investigations of Puebla’s subterranean water flows (Esther Galicia Hernández...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 769–771.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of water, the pursuit of efficiency gains, and the formation of river basin committees as well as national and state forums of representation. Practical Authority is basically a study of the sociology of those water institutional reforms under the inspiration of the concept of integrated water...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 501.
Published: 01 August 1994
.... Paper . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The inhabitants of the basin of Mexico cannot really ignore the place water occupies in their existence. The questions and problems preoccupying today’s Mexico City residents may have changed from those that worried the inhabitants...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 324–325.
Published: 01 May 1972
... Lathrap’s vision of waves of migrations pouring into the Upper Amazon Basin, creating land shortages and population pressures, cannot be deduced solely from a study of the archeological materials presented in The Upper Amazon . The author’s careful reassessment of the Upper Amazon environment and its...