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Hispanic American Historical Review (1947) 27 (3): 569–570.
Published: 01 August 1947
...Charles W. Spellman Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Recommended Readings on Florida. A Standard Guide to the Best Books on Florida with Helpful and Critical Evaluations . By Hanna A. J. . ( Winter Park, Florida : Union Catalog of Floridiana , 1945 . Pp. 64...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1942) 22 (1): 5–33.
Published: 01 February 1942
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1920) 3 (4): 574–576.
Published: 01 November 1920
... Surveys, and the Field Notes of Scientists and Explorers, and the best Latin American Authorities . ( New York : General Drafting Co., Inc. [c 1919 ]. Pp. 196 . 21 commercial charts; 35 maps; index . $20.00 .) Copyright 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 733–734.
Published: 01 November 1968
...Robert H. Dix The Last, Best Hope: Eduardo Frei and Chilean Democracy . By Gross Leonard . New York , 1967 . Random House . Index . Pp. xi , 240 . $5.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 North Americans viewing contemporary Latin American governments...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 469–502.
Published: 01 August 2011
... trypanosomiasis) made him arguably the best-known medical scientist in the country. As the federal director of public health and the director as well of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, he appeared to be well positioned to collaborate fruitfully with RF initiatives in public health and medical education. Yet in many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 73–106.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Christopher R. Boyer; Emily Wakild Abstract This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934–40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sabine Hyland; Christine Lee Abstract How did khipus—knotted cords that encode information—function within the economic systems of the postcolonial Andes? Best known as the method by which the Incas recorded administrative data, khipu use continued into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Few...
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in From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
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Published: 01 February 2010
Figure 1 Administering the bezoar stone to an ill man. From Johannes de Cuba, Ortus sanitatis . Translaté de latin (de Jean de Cuba) en françois ( Le traictié des bestes, oyseaux, poissons, pierres précieuses et orines du Jardin de santé ) (Paris: A. Verard, ca. 1499 – 1502), fol. 135v. Image
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 February 1975
... Pletcher opens his long, detailed study with three propositions: 1) “the duty of those who determine or carry out foreign policy is to secure their country’s best interests in the most efficient and the safest manner available to them—by peaceful means if at all possible, . . . but by war if it cannot...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 August 2006
..., and traveling vast imaginative distances to save heathen souls. Hers was an extraordinary life. Lucky for us, this laywoman’s incredible story fell into the hands of a talented and dogged historian. Gunnarsdóttir’s work is biography at its best, highly attentive to the central protagonist’s historical context...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 465.
Published: 01 August 1962
... Antelo’s thoughts are interesting, profound, and a reflection of the Bolivian problem. But he remains an obscure figure and I doubt his influence on Bolivian historiography or social thought. The Antelo essay is René-Moreno at his best. The commentaries by three excellent Santa Cruz scholars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 228–229.
Published: 01 February 1971
..., such as the present book, and finds them at worst hollow, pretentious and cant-ridden, at best passionately sincere and dedicated but highly derivative and totally lacking in historical perspective and balance, the more he tends to grit his teeth and to summon up patience in contemplating the established culture...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 454–455.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Charles E. Nowell It is useful to have this reissue of the Fontoura da Costa edition of our best source for the Gama first voyage, as only a few years ago, to the best of this reviewer’s knowledge, only Harvard and the Library of Congress possessed both the Köpke and Herculano editions, and many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 1980
... of the problems presented. The suggestion is made that Brazil needs a president who would act as a supreme moderating power—a national ombudsman who would work for the best interests of all Brazilians. It all sounds very dreamy and impractical. Public opinion is rarely mobilized as Brazil has no tradition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 1982
... with a number of general reflections on business, politics, and public policy and with speculations on the future of Venezuelan democracy. The author’s social and political analysis is very poor and quite tendentious, grounded in a weak and heavily ideological set of ideas best described as a marriage of Ayn...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 241–242.
Published: 01 May 1964
... that circumstances will permit the resumption of this worthwhile project, and that the best of the unedited manuscripts will be added. After Saco’s death his heirs turned his papers over to the Cuban biographer-historian-critic, Vidal Morales, who edited another volume (Habana, Miguel de Villa, 1881). Many other...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 705–706.
Published: 01 November 1982
... focus than— those of the best “neo-Liberals” like Ernesto Celesia and Enrique M. Barba. This well-written book is a guide to the literature and the sources; it is one of the best on the place and the times; and, while neither an exhaustive biography nor a comprehensive history of the province...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 196–197.
Published: 01 February 2002
... populations. Through careful marshalling of evidence from both nations, Calderón writes a unified labor and social history that spans the two sides of the border. This reinforces work by other scholars, including the present author, that suggests that prior to 1929, we might best think of one single Mexican...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 259–261.
Published: 01 May 1967
... and deep in its coverage, and sound in the vast majority of its judgments. Since it is also generally tersely written and accurate in its facts, incorporating most results of the best and latest scholarship, I believe that it unquestionably provides us with our best interpretive synthesis to date. Yet...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 August 1964
..., is to offer to modern readers three of the most interesting contemporary accounts of Magellan’s voyage. All three of these accounts have appeared before in excellent English translations and, in fact, Professor Nowell has used the best of these (J. A. Robertson’s translation of Pigafetta’s account...
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