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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 1971
...Henry F. Dobyns Arriaga lucidly explains several disquieting realities. Despite Latin American maternal mortality rates 750 percent those of Europe, the difference in life expectancy for 15-year old girls in the two regions amounts to merely 12 days! As mortality declines, one anticipates...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1954) 34 (1): 69–71.
Published: 01 February 1954
...Roland Dennis Hussey Puerto Rico and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean: A Study in the Decline of Spanish Exclusivism . By Carrión Arturo Morales . ( Río Piedras : University of Puerto Rico Press , 1952 . Pp. 160 , Bibliography, index .) Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 385–386.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Richard Boyer Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty of Peru in the Seventeenth Century . By Andrien Kenneth J. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1985 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography . Pp. x , 275 . Cloth. $27.50 . Copyright 1986 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 707–708.
Published: 01 November 1987
... that the natives had to contend. Although the Indian population during the colonial period fell by more than 90 percent, by the end of that time almost 90 percent of the remaining natives in eastern Honduras remained out of Spanish control. The population decline was consequently more serious in the western...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 259–281.
Published: 01 May 1989
... on the hacienda and plantation, concerning tenure, land use, and labor relations. The literature on Bolivia is no exception. The two most important themes studied have been the expansion of the hacienda at the expense of Indian lands and the decline of commercial agriculture as a consequence of changes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 463–481.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera A group of scholars—Alejandra Moreno Toscano, Guy Thomson, Garavaglia and Grosso, and Arístides Medina Rubio—have tried to pinpoint these internal failings. Moreno Toscano blames the prevailing practice of absentee landlordism, while Thomson attributes the decline to a rigid...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1955) 35 (2): 284–286.
Published: 01 May 1955
...Jorge Basadre The Western Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline . By Whitaker Arthur P. . Ithaca, N. Y. , 1954 . Cornell University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 194 . $3.00 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (4): 729–765.
Published: 01 November 1998
... of the citrus colony of Omaja in the province of Oriente. This case study allows me to explore, in the subsequent section, the differing reasons for the decline of colonies in eastern Cuba as compared to those on Isla de Pinos. I then examine the quantitative impact of the development of the citrus colonies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 1994
..., and that the importance of the local system is greater in social life and less in economic life” (p. 202). Cancian announces his thesis in the title of his new book. By decline of community, Cancian means a decline of the closed, corporate peasant community. During the 1970s and 1980s, Zinacantecos found new and more...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 662.
Published: 01 November 1995
..., physical anthropology, linguistics, and early Spanish chronicles. He presents the successive phases of human expansion into these islands, interspersed with in situ cultural development, over a six-thousand-year period. Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Tainos: Rise and Decline...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 1982
... in Madrid needed increased contributions from the viceregal treasury to help stem the economic and military decline of Spain in Europe. 2 Selling treasury offices yielded useful funds. At the same time, however, such sales allowed untrained, inefficient, and even dishonest officials to exercise power...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 372–373.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Thomas M. Davies, Jr. Covering Castro: Rise and Decline of Cuba’s Communist Dictator . By Mallin Jay Sr . New Brunswick : Transaction , 1994 . Index . xii , 201 pp. Cloth . $32.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Latin Americanists who came of age...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 302–303.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Brian Loveman Return to Havana: The Decline of Cuban Society Under Castro . By Halperin Maurice . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 1994 . Bibliography. Index . ix , 200 pp. Cloth . $18.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Maurice Halperin...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 1973
...James F. King The Decline and Abolition of Negro Slavery in Venezuela, 1820-1854 . By Lombardi John V. . Westport, Connecticut , 1971 . Greenwood Publishing Corporation . Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, 7 . Maps. Tables. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 464–465.
Published: 01 August 1968
...Julian Nava The Decline of the Californios. A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890 . By Pitt Leonard . Berkeley , 1966 . University of California Press . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 324 . $7.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 707–708.
Published: 01 November 1968
... Switzerland. The account of Sutter’s wanderings on the American frontier and in Hawaii appears adequate. The main thrust of the book is Sutter’s entire California experience and not at all what the subtitle indicates: Sutter’s decline and fall. Even though the author pictures his subject as repeatedly skating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 568–569.
Published: 01 November 1967
...J. H. Parry The Cabildo in Peru under the Bourbons. A Study in the Decline and Resurgence of Local Government in the Audiencia of Lima, 1700-1824 . By Moore John Preston . Durham , 1966 . Duke University Press . Illustrations. Map. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vi , 275...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1928) 8 (2): 178–189.
Published: 01 May 1928
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1934) 14 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 May 1934
...Alexander Marchant Copyright 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 British Preëminence in Brazil: Its Rise and Decline. A Study in European Expansion . By Manchester Alan K. . ( Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1933 . Pp. 354 . Bibliography.) ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 395–396.
Published: 01 August 1964
... been sweated down, as Prescott would say, to less than one-tenth that number. With almost mathematical precision, approximately one-fourth of the selections is derived from each title. Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Prescott’s Histories: The Rise and Decline of the Spanish...