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Hispanic American Historical Review (1958) 38 (3): 434–435.
Published: 01 August 1958
...Carlos E. Castañeda The Coinage of the First Mint of the Americas at Mexico City, 1536-1572 . Ry Nesmith Robert I. . New York , 1955 . The American Numismatic Society . Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 131 . Illustrations. Appendices. Plates . Pp. 139 . Copyright 1958...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (1): 181.
Published: 01 February 1979
...William B. Taylor The Coinage of the First Mint of the Americas at Mexico City, 1536-1572 . By Nesmith Robert I. . Lawrence, Mass. , 1977 . Quarterman Publications . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes . Pp. 169 . Cloth . $30.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press...
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The Silver Coinage of Zapata, 1914-1915
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3): 456–462.
Published: 01 August 1972
..., of which one aspect was the collapse of the money system. The Mexico City mint, which had suspended gold coinage in 1910, ceased to strike the pesos fuertes in March, 1914, and the subsidiary silver in September. Federal gold and silver coin presently disappeared from circulation. Throughout the country...
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The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identification in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560–1640
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 471–499.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Karen B. Graubart Abstract This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the “indio solarero” and the “indio criollo.” These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties...
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La Revolución mexicana y sus monedas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 226.
Published: 01 February 1971
... and other curiosos , Gaytán’s study of Revolutionary coinage is only of tangential interest to the historian. The catalog is arranged alphabetically by states, replete with pictures of each coin described. The descriptions cater to the interests of the coin buff—size, weight, metal content, distinguishing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 771–772.
Published: 01 November 1983
.... Chapter 10 discusses coinage, prices, and wages. Of note is a project to create a copper coinage in Santiago, near the Cuban copper mines. Speculation in the coinage and endemic falsification were two of the problems faced by some authorities and created by others. Chapter 11, by far the largest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 483–510.
Published: 01 November 1963
... money exchanged at a discount of 80 per cent in terms of “hard” money, but the kinds of money are not specified. 44 As long as it controlled the mint in Guatemala City the central government maintained the coinage of gold and silver in accordance with colonial monetary legislation. William...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 165–167.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Murdo J. MacLeod Morineau has much of value to impart. He cautions with intricate, solid reasoning against an emphasis on mining output, precious metals, and coinage, as indicators of economic life and health. He damages many generalizations about trade and conditions of trade in the seventeenth...
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Sobre Héroes y Tumbas: National Symbols in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (3): 375–416.
Published: 01 August 2005
... epistolario de San Martín , ed. José A. de la Puente Candamo (Lima: Comisión Nacional del Sesquicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, 1974), 1:379–84; Davis Burnett, Bolivian Proclamation Coinage (Virginia, MN: Latin America Press, 1987); and Fernando Baptista Gumucio, Las monedas de la independencia...
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How to Make a New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonial Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 520–522.
Published: 01 August 2024
... coinage in his chapter on money yet says nothing about this very significant event, perhaps the most significant example of such resistance. While he does discuss slavery, he still overlooks the forced labor that Spaniards constantly coerced out of so-called free Indigenous people though various other...
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Silver Symbiosis: ReOrienting Mexican Economic History
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 89–133.
Published: 01 February 2001
..., or roughly what they had averaged between 1796 and 1823.” 65 Between 1805 and 1834, Yankee merchants exchanged over 130 million pesos for silk and tea, equal to 32 percent Mexico’s total coinage for that period or about three times the amount that the British took from China in those years as opium...
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Latin America Between the Eagle and the Bear
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (1): 81–82.
Published: 01 February 1964
... employs the phrase ‘Socratic Christian Tradition’ as distinctive of ‘Hispano-’ as opposed to ‘Anglo-America’, conforming thus to the general usage of ‘Christian’ among Spanish-speaking Latins. Some of his own coinages are excellent, for instance, the distinction between the ‘doctors’ and the ‘generals...
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Venezuela und Deutschland (1815-1870)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 February 1985
... and coinage practices are essentially superfluous. Rambling narratives of the activities of German merchants and their supportive consuls could be synthesized more meaningfully, with a tighter focus upon the dynamics of German business enterprise. Finally, the study is confined to a needlessly narrow...
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Independencia
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 701–702.
Published: 01 November 1968
... of Independence are the central themes, the topics covered actually range in time from pre-1810 to about 1820. Some are fairly narrow in scope—e.g. military medicine in the Army of the Andes and the coinage in use at the time of the Congress, as discussed respectively by Francisco Cignoli and Captain Humberto F...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 571–572.
Published: 01 August 1984
... of the silver coinage that gave the main stimulus to development in the core areas. As before, Cushner treats the Jesuit estates as a network of enterprises devoted to providing produce, consumption goods, and revenue for the colleges to which they were attached. The book gives a clear and detailed analysis...
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Veracruz Merchants, 1770–1829: A Merchant Elite in Late Bourbon and Early Independent Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 672–673.
Published: 01 November 1995
... mechanisms were vital because of the drain of coinage to Spain, the lack of banks, and the delays and inefficiencies of communication.) Most merchants stuck to wholesale trading and often operated as agents of larger outside houses. Relations with the authorities were troubled, but after an initial period...
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Orígenes de la vida económica chilena, 1659-1808
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 513–514.
Published: 01 August 1987
... the disruption of the Santiago earthquake of that year, the business upheavals occasioned by bankruptcies in Lima, devaluation because of falsification of coinage in the Potosí mint, and the Araucanian eruption into the central zone in 1658-59 brought sharply rising prices that lasted until 1663. From 1663...
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Historia económica de Cuba
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 140–142.
Published: 01 February 1968
... synthesis touching all aspects of the economy: native products and cultivation of tobacco; the introduction of wheat, cattle, vegetables, sugar, rice, and coffee; mineral resources in gold and copper; monetary problems including macuquina or defaced coinage; fishing and shipbuilding as part...
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Daily Life in Colonial Peru, 1710-1820
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 757–759.
Published: 01 November 1969
... Descola relies on the myths and realities of Amat’s affair with la Perricholi. Trade and economic life, the military, the university, weights and measures, coinage, and clerical life also receive attention. Intended for popular consumption, this book will appall the scholar, especially since footnotes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 538–539.
Published: 01 August 1999
... and the Council of Finance for control of supplies of Cuban copper needed both to mint debased vellón coinage and to cast bronze cannon (pp. 148-49). That the financiers won, overriding royal objections, shows how acute and complex Spain’s problems were. The introduction traces Spain’s development...
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