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Hispanic American Historical Review (1952) 32 (3): 397–398.
Published: 01 August 1952
...Fulmer Mood 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. . ( Salt Lake City : Utah State Historical Society , 1951...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 41–71.
Published: 01 February 2012
... constructed a canal, the Gran Canal del Desagüe, and a tunnel project that carried the city’s wastewater and the lake’s floodwaters out of the northern edge of the Basin of Mexico. 5 Díaz heralded the project as one of the “greatest that modern man has been able to carry out,” and he wasted no time...
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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 (2019) 99 (3): 563–564.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Heidi V. Scott 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. xiv, 102 pp. Paper , $29.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Stephen B. Brush Three introductory chapters, with thorough discussions of research methods and problems, are followed by the substantive core of the book: four chapters on the natural environment, settlement history, demographic history, and resource exploitation of the Basin of Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 May 1968
...André Gschaedler The Pacific Basin. A History of Its Geographical Exploration . Edited by Friis Herman R. . New York , 1967 . American Geographical Society . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. xi , 457 . $12.00 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Like...
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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 (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 (1988) 68 (3): 598–599.
Published: 01 August 1988
... “capitalism” or a “world system.” The title is slightly misleading since few chapters explain what constitutes a “crisis,” and some incorporate countries not conventionally included in the “Caribbean Basin.” The ten essays focusing on the French Caribbean, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Jamaica, El Salvador...
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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 (1983) 63 (2): 385–386.
Published: 01 May 1983
...J. Benedict Warren 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 , 1981 . Tables. Notes. Maps. Bibliography . Pp. x , 143 . Paper...
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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
... historical data is a valid criticism. The area covered by the book is extensive—it covers the whole Amazon drainage basin. And this basin is indeed huge, extending from Quito to the Atlantic and from Brasília into Venezuela. This includes much of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes. The whole basin is 2.7...
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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
...) in 16 river basins. As is widely known, Brazil has the largest reserves of fresh water in the planet, and water usage has played a very important role in the urbanization and industrialization of the country since the 1890s. Some of the largest dams and hydropower projects are found in Brazil...
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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 (1997) 77 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 May 1997
... perturbations to policy to practice to often unintended consequences. As an archaeologist, this reviewer also found much to recommend in two more synthetic chapters, a diachronic overview of Basin of Mexico chinampas by the editor, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, and a comprehensive historical discussion of chinampa...