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Hispanic American Historical Review (1931) 11 (3): 363–364.
Published: 01 August 1931
...A. Curtis Wilgus The Scourge of the Indies, Buccaneers, Corsairs, and Filibusters . By Besson Maurice . ( New York : Random House , 1929 . Pp. xii , 333 .) Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 February 2008
... in the who’s who blanks for France. Though primarily an examination of seventeenth-century francophone Caribbean privateers turned buccaneers or flibustiers , Pirates ranges widely, examining sixteenth-century Huguenot corsairs and colonists, early eighteenth-century nobleman-adventurers, and even a few...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 February 1995
... to decide not only what voyages to include but when to stop his narrative. He begins with the first English voyage to the Caribbean, that of John Rut in 1527, and proceeds through the early slave ships and the heyday of the corsairs. After the conquest of Jamaica in 1655 he shifts to the activities...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 311.
Published: 01 May 1963
... by the Argentinian Department of Historic Naval Studies has brought back into print Commander Ratto’s sketch of Bouchard, “one of the greatest corsairs that the sea has known.” Some fresh data, plus a biographical note by Captain Humberto F. Burzio, Chief of the Department, has been added to the original. Though...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 526–528.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the Caracas Company and the colonials; he also contributed prominently to shaping policy for combating British interlopers in Central America and to drafting a regulation for the proper conduct of Spanish corsairs. As marine intendant, he worked to bring La Carraca shipyard up to the standards that Ensenada's...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 553–555.
Published: 01 August 2022
... discusses a related aspect of Spanish activities in the circum-Caribbean: state-sponsored corsairs. Predation at sea—known as piracy in peacetime—changed into a sanctioned aspect of naval warfare during times of interstate hostilities. Sponsoring corsairs was a cost-effective means for states to extend...
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“Betwixt Ye Two Rivers”: Trafficking and Colonization in Early Seventeenth-Century Saint Christopher
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Dominica and Martinique, Martines witnessed English, French, and Dutch seamen who formed a “flotilla of corsairs” acting in concert with one another, trading with the Kalinagos for tobacco and food, cultivating their own tobacco, and cutting dyewood. 1 Martines's testimony about his experiences...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 351.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Donald E. Worcester The topics treated include Spain, relations with Brazil, warships and corsairs, mining, commerce, missions, ideas, education, and life and customs. Five chapters were published earlier in various historical journals, and were therefore excluded from this work. These deal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 283–284.
Published: 01 May 1982
... (Italian) crises, which involved foreign fleets that threatened to blockade and bombard Cartagena if grievances to the nationals named were not redressed. Lemaitre, not surprisingly, heavily emphasizes the colorful colonial period. He deals not only with famous attacks by foreign corsairs and fleets...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 693–694.
Published: 01 November 1990
.... For example, he does not deal at all with the military or the church, and gives short shrift to corsair activities. On the whole, however, this work is an essential title for anyone interested in the history of the Dominican Republic. Along with the work of Sevilla Soler, it provides a good overview...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 251–252.
Published: 01 May 1967
... at humor and sarcasm are somewhat heavy-handed. It is not difficult to generate interest in the history of this area, filled with action, romance, legendary characters, and a vast struggle for empire. In general, Nicole has mixed these ingredients well, especially in his portrayal of pirates, corsairs...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 492–493.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Ulloa (1749) is quoted describing the ports of Cartagena and Portobelo. The lengthiest extract is from the memoirs of the French corsair Duguay-Trouin, published in 1740, and deals with his expedition against Rio de Janeiro (1710-12). Other extracts describe Buenos Aires in 1771; Brazilian sugar...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 717–718.
Published: 01 November 1979
... the region’s exports, so tight was Seville’s grip on American trade. In the end, corsairs and privateers did not destroy Spanish hegemony; instead, English colonists did by producing the sugar and tobacco which Spanish policy had discouraged. ...
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A náutica e a ciência em Portugal: notas sobre as navegações A situação econômica no tempo de Pombal
Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 476–477.
Published: 01 August 1995
.... One of the most interesting essays discusses Portuguese royal support of corsairing against Muslim positions in Granada and Morocco during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Others examine the ideas of the seventeenth-century writer Antonio de Naiera, the first Portuguese scholar to employ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 513–514.
Published: 01 August 1987
... and graphs for each item. Even the possible impact of corsairs into the Pacific in the seventeenth century is examined in detail, placed against recorded annual sailings, and then dismissed as insignificant. In part six, the authors concentrate on the general movement of prices as they calculate weighted...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Jorge Cañizares Esguerra La fisica de la monarquía describes Malaspina’s earliest education in Italy, his ascent through the ranks of the Spanish navy after whirlwind campaigns in the Mediterranean (fighting Muslim corsairs) and Asia (in the service of the Compañia de Filipinas), his...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 533–534.
Published: 01 August 2015
... poor water conditions and to provide fresh breezes to reduce the threat of yellow fever. Equally clear are tactics utilized by Enrile to close access to the city for corsairs and bongos with local foodstuffs. Segovia methodically traces the military actions, with special attention to the manner...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 711–712.
Published: 01 November 1987
... to their deaths rather than face capture and torture at the hands of the “Lutheran” corsairs. In this, his latest and best book, Juan Manuel Zapatero has not only filled a very significant gap in the historiography of colonial Spanish America, but he has also provided historians with a model for future...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 319–320.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... Military exigencies—especially well covered with regards to Florida, where English pirates, French corsairs, and Indian revolt all threatened the sovereignty of the crown—the needs of the priests first to evangelize the Indians and then to care for them in their devastation, and the everyday needs...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 529–530.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Ferraz Barbosa and José Luis Ruiz-Peinado Alonso, Eduardo S. Neumann, Daniela Barroso F. Dias, Celia Salazar Exaire, Donato Amado Gonzales, Paulina Numhauser, and Paz Cabello Carro; also, Gennaro Varriale has a piece on Mediterranean corsairs. Several articles in this section focus on the repressive...
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