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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 108–109.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Oakah L. Jones The book is organized into four topical chapters, the last two of which provide an intensive analysis of recruited colonists, families, and funds allocated by Páez Hurtado to each family for equipment, food, clothing, and sustenance. A useful appendix describes prices...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 220–221.
Published: 01 February 1970
...B. Carmon Hardy Ordeal in Mexico. Tales of Danger and Hardship Collected from Mormon Colonists . Retold by Young Karl E. . Salt Lake City , 1968 . Deseret Book Company . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 265 . $1.95 . This said, it is important to acknowledge...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 2024
... involvement in the genesis and financing of the allied war effort. This article instead focuses on the postwar behavior of the British government, exploring its attitude to the 892 mainly English colonists of the failed 1872–73 Lincolnshire farmers emigration scheme to Paraguay. The British government's open...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 3–34.
Published: 01 February 2020
... centered on Afro-Mexican women who were kidnapped to Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti). A focus on displacement and resilience opens new narratives through which to understand women who transcended their captivity by becoming spouses to French colonists and free mothers to Saint-Domingue's gens de couleur...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 749–750.
Published: 01 November 1969
... compilation of information on forty thousand immigrants to Spanish America, 1493-1600 (approximately twenty percent of the total flow during that period), obtained largely from published sources and manuscript passenger lists in the Archivo General de las Indias. Included in the entries for each colonist...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 601–602.
Published: 01 August 1996
... Amazon development, he found many points that might be contested. Stewart’s grasp of the politics of indigenous peoples and their interactions with colonists is simplistic, as is his understanding of the ecology of the region in which he traveled. If Stewart were able to arrange the world the way he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 777–779.
Published: 01 November 2019
... southwestern coast, saw the largest concentration of American colonists in Cuba, who flocked to the isle to purchase land in the wake of the US occupation in 1898 and the Platt Amendment. Similar to the origin of most of the other American colonies in Cuba, US-based landholding companies, formed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 577–579.
Published: 01 August 2006
... primary agency to colonists in the creation of colonial institutions and economic and social structures. What colonists did, rather than what policy makers and legislators at Versailles proclaimed, is a recurring theme that rejects an earlier, uncritical, top-down historiography of colonial development...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 744–745.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to better understand the “dynamic interaction between the environmental conditions colonists encountered and the cultural ideals and institutions they brought with them” (p. 4). Reading how English colonists addressed these issues over three hundred years ago has the potential to enlighten current events...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 August 2013
... about how public health fit with social justice. One of the case studies that receives extensive coverage from Mckiernan-González is that of American colonists moving to Mexico. A group of African Americans were to move from Alabama to work with the Tlahualilo Agricultural Company in northern Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (4): 729–765.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., in the relatively sparsely populated provinces of Camagüey and Oriente (see map 1 ). 3 There was also a dense concentration of colonies and colonists on Isla de Pinos. 4 Most of the literature on United States economic expansion into Cuba has focused on the sugar sector, the sector that United States...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 580–604.
Published: 01 November 1976
... emigrants to about 55,000. 2 In each of the five volumes that correspond to the twenty-year segments into which I have arbitrarily divided the century, there appear listed by province and town, and within each town in alphabetical order, the colonists of certain or near-certain origin who emigrated...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 583–584.
Published: 01 August 1988
... country to consider the colonists inferior. Discrimination might be merely social, but usually it extended to economic and political measures. In the meantime, the need to adapt to conditions usually markedly different from those of the mother country created in each set of colonists very real changes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 521–522.
Published: 01 August 2009
... studies is her decision to analyze identity within the theoretical framework of ethnogenesis, or “the birthing of new cultural identities” (p. 1), and to focus on the colonists rather than the colonized (Native Americans). Simply stated, Voss highlights how a diverse group of families of mixed race...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 166–167.
Published: 01 February 2010
... governing officials continued to maintain the cumbersome mission system in Texas. Since plantation agriculture needed a labor supply, the colonists of Natchitoches began to import African slaves and thus to change the demographic makeup of the society. From the relatively egalitarian society...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 May 1982
... those used by the planners for classifying the colonists and judging their success, he reveals managerial and cultural variables overlooked or misjudged in designing the project and assessing its results. Inappropriate criteria for selecting colonists, prejudices against the resident caboclos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 717–718.
Published: 01 November 1979
... tropical exports; its natural harbors, bays, and inlets made it an American Mediterranean. To the first generation of Spanish colonists, America meant those lands bordering the Caribbean sea from Cuba to Puerto Rico and Trinidad, from Tierra Firme to Panama and Yucatán. This region, so diverse politically...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 February 1997
... and recruitment lists of colonists that are a treasure trove for genealogists. Finally, as the editors acknowledge, published works of this nature owe their very existence to generous and continuing support from foundations and private individuals who make up “La Compañía de Vargas.” The narrative recounts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (4): 606–625.
Published: 01 November 1971
... in estates of immense size. The Portuguese crown, seeking a profit from the export of sugar, was obliged to provide an extremely generous incentive to the colonists. Anyone who claimed to have the means and desire to make use of the land was given a grant, customarily one to three leagues in extent (16.7...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 520–521.
Published: 01 August 1965
... for the Jewish Colonization Association’s support of the colony signifies that the scheme to colonize Baron Hirsch has been largely unsuccessful. Moreover, the colonists probably will be unable to maintain their Jewish identity for many more generations. Colonia Baron Hirsch, therefore, will cease to remain...