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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 762–764.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kirwin R. Shaffer For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938 . By Sonia Hernández . Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii, 222 pp. Paper, $28.00 . Copyright ©...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 414–415.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Albert Berry Searching for a Better Society: The Peruvian Economy from 1950 . By Sheahan John . University Park, Pa : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1999 . Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . xi , 211 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 555–556.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Cassia Roth Progressive Mothers, Better Babies will be of particular interest to historians of medicine, social historians of gender, and scholars studying slavery and postabolition inequalities across Latin America. Moreover, Otovo's focus on the state of Bahia—which in the period under study...
View articletitled, Progressive Mothers, <span class="search-highlight">Better</span> Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 423–460.
Published: 01 August 2023
... about Palmares and Indigenous history and provide suggestive points of comparison with Spanish America and better-known examples from the Age of Revolution. Despite legal mobilizations and violent resistance, there was no way to forestall the creep of “agricultural capitalism” in Alagoas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2011
... successful in securing posts after independence. In terms of subsequent offices held, the handful of creole audiencia ministers that emigrated to Spain fared better than the peninsulars that remained in the newly independent states. The second decision, determining the legitimate representative...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 August 2010
... concept is a key to a better understanding of the history of Spanish America during the years that followed the crisis of the monarchy—a long period of instability judged traditionally as an age of anarchy and void of any political norms. On the contrary, the new sovereign, though fragile, governments...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the Spanish Philippines is better apprehended by including the history of colonial Mexico, and vice versa. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 In 1780, 177 Mexican recruits arrived in the Philippines onboard the Naos de la China , or Manila galleons, the small fleet of Spanish trading...
View articletitled, Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 551–586.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the study of climatic teleconnections requires multiple scales of analysis to understand better how the different politics and scopes of action, and sets of unlikely processes, move into play. These teleconnections were, in fact, socially mediated with eventually wide-reaching social and racial...
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View articletitled, Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 72–73.
Published: 01 February 1946
... and interesting. There is only one special article, Latin American Periodicals Dealing With Labor and Social Welfare. This is a welcomed innovation. The Handbook should not include brief monographs or special articles which are better in the numerous reviews and periodicals. But the particular article included...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 535–537.
Published: 01 August 2009
... space was conceived as a locale that would inhibit the disease’s propagation. Advocates of better regulation of immigration defended their views with a curious mixture of hereditarian, racial, and bacteriological concepts. The widespread and justifiable fear of the disease also encouraged progressive...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 1969
...Holmes Alexander Boorstein makes the point that Cuban peasants are now better housed, better fed, and better clothed. Perhaps they are; but at this writing the drouth and the exportation of food for foreign exchange are reported to have produced the most severe food shortage and the most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 321.
Published: 01 May 1982
...Gilbert Cardenas Use of these primary sources enables García to reconstruct the sequence of events and to identify the design and major actors involved in the deportation. García’s treatment of this theme is outstanding and comes off better than other recently published books about Mexicans...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 366–367.
Published: 01 May 1979
... that the French Leninist Debray better understood the Cuban Revolution before he began research in Cuba for Revolution in the Revolution? “Debray’s Leninist presuppositions,” according to Professor Ramm, “were a better guide than all of the added information, some of it privileged, which he gathered in Cuba” (p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 2019
... and often-contradictory ways in which demands for more and better policing were mediated. This is not, as the author cautions, an institutional history of the Buenos Aires police but rather an analysis of the specific circumstances that helped justify their use of coercive force. The book can be read...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 677–678.
Published: 01 November 2009
... to public office, Indians deserving better treatment, and the constant complaint about the appointment of Spaniards as colonial officials. The belief that Creoles were better administrators than peninsulares , because as locals they knew their land better, was based on the assumption that as vecinos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 435–436.
Published: 01 August 1964
... by Fernando Belaunde Terry….” The historical part is far too sketchy, which leads to dangerous oversimplification. One wonders if a good Latin American history textbook is not a better source for acquaintance. As in many of the other volumes the economic part—development, finance, production, trade...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 538–539.
Published: 01 August 2008
... new approach to the history of medicine, the “literary turn” taken by numerous writers over the past couple of decades. With this she succeeds far better than most, wisely situating her exploration of language and meanings within the changing landscape of Bolivian society, economy, and politics...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., making this section of the essay all the more enlightening. Vinson’s essay not only contributes a very useful reference source; his insightful assessment makes it easier to situate these works, and future studies, within a better context. Bobby Vaughn’s 21-page ethnographic study—describing living...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 73–75.
Published: 01 February 1946
.... These and similar economic conditions form the subject matter of Professor Ellsworth s book. In his concluding chapter he balances the various factors that might contribute to or retard Chile s advancement: its soil, if better utilized; its mineral resources, especially copper and iron (he is less hopeful about...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 770–772.
Published: 01 November 1970
... of bibliophiles, not scholars. Would not the cause of scholarship and the dissemination of knowledge have been better served by a less pretentious—and less expensive—edition? (I cannot forbear adding that another edition will better serve the needs of scholars and others interested in the voyage of Magellan...
View articletitled, Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation The Voyage of Magellan: The Journal of Antonio Pigafetta
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