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Hispanic American Historical Review (1947) 27 (2): 340–341.
Published: 01 May 1947
...C. Norman Guice Norte de la contratación de las Indias Occidentales . By Linage Joseph Veitia . [ Comisión Argentina de Fomento Interamericano, Publicaciones .] ( Buenos Aires : Talleres Gráficos de Bartolomé U. Chiesino , 1945 . Pp. xxxvi , 854 . Frontispiece. Paper.) [ Distributed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 579–612.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., fols. 342–43; Magdalena Sossa, 1594, AGN, GD61 Inquisición, vol. 208, exp. 3. See also Williams, “Polonia de Ribas”; Velázquez Gutiérrez, Mujeres . 102. Ana Gómez, 1600, AGI, Contratación 257A, no. 3, ramo 12. 103. Ibid., fols. 89r–116r. 104. Ibid., fol. 97r. 105. “Libro de...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 705–706.
Published: 01 November 2011
... imperial ambitions. Portuondo focuses on three loci of cosmographical practice — the Casa de Contratación, the Consejo de Indias, and the court — and probes the institutional development of cosmography and cartography in each of these places and the work of some of their more important practitioners...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 601–631.
Published: 01 November 2011
... by the House of Trade (Casa de la Contratación), the institution that controlled the movement of people and cargo across the Atlantic. The certificates, which I will call travel papers in this article, included physical descriptions of the travelers that served to identify them to the authorities much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 August 1997
... was almost always the province of a master navigator, who was empowered to instruct, examine, and license aspiring pilots for overseas voyages. The cosmographers and pilots were members —and important ones —of the Casa de la Contratación, the Spanish board of overseas trade. Lamb sums up the duties...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 791–793.
Published: 01 November 1984
... the large servicio received? In the debate over “decline,” the critical factor has been the absence of quantitative data after about 1660. This monograph is amply grounded upon primary sources long available, such as the AGI’s contratación, contaduría , and indiferente sections. Quantitative...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Contratación was truly impressive. Mena leaves few details unattended. She treats the number and occupations of the passengers, the number and regional origins of the crews, the sizes and characteristics of the ships, the types of artisans and laborers who serviced them, their salary scale...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 567–596.
Published: 01 November 2021
... have highlighted the mail system's shortcomings in maintaining the pace of communication among institutions such as the audiencias, the Council of the Indies, and the Casa de Contratación. 21 This was certainly true, and there is no doubt that it hampered political surveillance. Yet...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 621–641.
Published: 01 November 1972
... 1 Martín Fernández de Navarrete, Colección de los viajes y descubrimientos que hicieron por mar los españoles (5 vols., Madrid, 1825-37). 2 AGI, Contratación 3249, fol. 144v. 3 Ibid ., fol. 184. 4 Ibid ., fol. 186. 5 Ibid ., fol. 230-231. 6 Bartolomé de las...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 211–234.
Published: 01 May 1993
... books that circulated in colonial society. 15 A profitable complementary source is the shipment records, especially those pertaining to the archives of the Casa de la Contratación in Seville. These records contain detailed lists of printed material exported to the Indies from 1550 on, supplying much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 August 1967
... del legajo. 43 On March 16, 1538 Ana registered at the Casa de Contratación as a passenger to New Spain. Catálogo de pasajeros a Indios durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII (Seville, 1942), II, no. 4724, 282 (hereafter cited as CPI). 42 The following conclusions are based on a study...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 489–502.
Published: 01 August 1969
... was Bernardino de Santa Clara, who was also appointed by Conchillos and confirmed by royal cédula of May 12, 1513. 23 From these beginnings developed the independent office of registro, minas y relaciones in America. After 1530 the notary thus established became the escribano for the casa de contratación...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (4): 357–370.
Published: 01 November 1966
... of goods in Peru and Chile and help defend the area against the English. For a time the project was stymied by opposition from the powerful merchants’ guild in Cádiz. Asked to arrange for the expedition, the president of the Casa de Contratación in Cádiz told Campillo that because of bitter resentment...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 344–347.
Published: 01 May 2019
... establishment responded to the need for a structure through which merchants might finance defense, as the burgeoning colonial trade had attracted foreign intruders. The model developed in medieval Burgos prevailed but required modifications to accommodate the supervisory role of the Casa de la Contratación...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 299–331.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in effect until the Real Cédula of June 20, 1749, annulled the restrictions imposed on the Americans. This decision opened the door to mutual trade between Cádiz and America, but it was not put into practice. The Casa de la Contratación (House of Trade), which supervised the shipping of merchandise...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 731–740.
Published: 01 November 1970
... ducats per year; 1565-1574, an average of 131,000 ducats per year. These figures are based on materials from the accounts of the Casa de Contratación, Santo Domingo, Havana, Tierra Firme, and Cartagena. They thus represent most but not all of the royal funds spent for defense. Paul E. Hoffman...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 290–291.
Published: 01 May 1963
... to the point of being funny, as illustrated by the entries for peso , “a Spanish coin the exact value in terms of present values cannot be computed with any accuracy”; and Casa de Contratación , “loosely translated as the House of India, or Indian Affairs.” One must also regret the failure of the editors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 274–275.
Published: 01 May 1982
... an appendix on judicial archives, with brief information on legal aspects of the Council of the Indies, the Casa de Contratación, and the Contaduría Mayor de Hacienda, a branch of the Council of Finance after 1554 that dealt with tax cases—an institution not yet studied in enough detail to indicate its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 388–389.
Published: 01 May 1991
... proposed additional voyages to the Indies but spent his last days sailing in Spanish waters, working for the newly established Casa de Contratación. He died in relative obscurity in 1514. The story of the Pinzón brothers and their maritime accomplishments and adventures is the subject of this long...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 601–602.
Published: 01 August 1983
... a use of evidence about royal policy, actions by the Casa de la Contratación, demography, capital investment, and so forth, he got only a quick jump to a new denunciation of the antimodern attitudes of Spain’s ruling class. That there is some truth in this thesis seems beyond doubt, but how, exactly...
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