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Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 702–704.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Paul Gootenberg [email protected] Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region . By Rebekah E. Pite . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 296 pp. Paper...
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Defining the Space of Mexico’68: Heroic Masculinity in the Prison and “Women” in the Streets
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 617–660.
Published: 01 November 2003
... and women’s accounts of the movement to reveal the gendered underpinnings of Mexican political culture. Narratives centered on the leaders’ accounts have too narrowly defined the space of the movement; consequently, juxtaposing the accounts of male leaders and female participants breaks open these definitions...
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Defining Responsibility: Printers, Politics, and the Law in Early Republican Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 May 2018
... facilitated republican politics by navigating legal categories such as responsibility and authorship that were defined by liberal law yet under debate and unevenly enforced. Focusing on the production, dissemination, and fallout over a controversial 1840 promonarchist pamphlet written by the Yucatecan senator...
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Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 305–306.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Michael A. Polushin I cannot recommend Defining Nations to the novice, and even the seasoned historian may find the notions of citizenship and “nativeness” presented throughout the work difficult to digest. Certainly, the book raises important questions regarding the interpretation...
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Guatemalan reformers placed their hopes on the young. The infinity of the b...
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Published: 01 February 2004
Figure 5 Guatemalan reformers placed their hopes on the young. The infinity of the black backdrop suggests an exaggerated attempt to define ladino identity as not only as cosmopolitan but also as universal, in its fullest sense.
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The Creation of a Social Problem: Youth Culture, Drugs, and Politics in Cold War Argentina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 37–69.
Published: 01 February 2015
... drug usage in the interwar period, explored here, had defined the medical contours of toxicomanía (addiction). But as the 1970s progressed, new legislation framed the drug problem as one of national security, proscribing illicit drug distribution, penalizing consumers, and authorizing federal police...
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The “Contagious Stench” Of Idolatry: The Rhetoric of Disease and Sacrilegious Acts in Colonial New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 481–515.
Published: 01 August 2016
... provided models for their possible cure. As the definition of idolatry was expanded to include all religious crimes committed by New Spain's indigenous population, it was severed from the material aspect (idol worship) that had originally defined it. The result was the conceptual conflation of two...
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Indigenous or Criollo: The Myth of White Argentina in Tucumán’s Calchaquí Valley
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 71–106.
Published: 01 February 2008
... surveyed the valley defined the population as criollo, that is, non-indigenous. The article demonstrates that, even though a certain creolization process did take place among the Calchaquí people during the nineteenth century, labeling them as criollos was a discursive operation manipulated by academic...
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Law of the Land? Hacienda Power and the Challenge of Republicanism in Postindependence Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 207–236.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Independence. By analyzing haciendas as a kind of constitutional gray zone in which vaguely defined property rights clashed with vaguely defined directives for constitutional political organization, the article contributes to understanding liberal state formation in Latin America during the crucial first years...
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Erasing Las Yaguas: Shantytown Networks and Social Reform in the Cuban Revolution, 1944–1963
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 463–492.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... In the end, Las Yaguas residents were defined as beneficiaries, not heroes, of the Cuban Revolution. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 We have no shantytowns here. —Fidel Castro, 1986 Between January and April 1963, four years after the fall of a dictatorial regime awash...
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Learning to Serve: Intimacy, Morality, and Violence
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 455–491.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and families from the elite of the imperial city of Petrópolis, and how the nature of workplace relations in the domestic sphere constituted a central point of reference for the formulation of a nascent feminist rhetoric. These new rhetorics and practices, which engaged in defining and controlling the slow...
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“Why Hasn’t This Teacher Been Shot?” Moral-Sexual Panic, the Repressive Right, and Brazil’s National Security State
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 403–436.
Published: 01 August 2012
... group of far-right intellectuals and organizations that had considerable influence in successive military administrations and worked to define subversion—the military state’s ever-invoked enemy—in terms chiefly moral and sexual. Scholars have noted that defense of “Western Christian civilization...
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Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico: An Environmental Interpretation of Cardenismo, 1934–1940
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 73–106.
Published: 01 February 2012
... in a variety of landscapes such as river valleys, roadways, and forests, the latter of which received special attention. The twin goals of rationalizing resource use and reconfiguring rural people’s relationship with the land, we argue, was a defining characteristic of Cardenismo and its attempt to harness...
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Indigenous Citizenship between Borderlands and Enclaves: Elections in Talamanca, Costa Rica, 1880–1913
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 641–668.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Alejandra Boza Villarreal Abstract In Costa Rican historiography, Talamanca has often been considered one of the country's most isolated areas for two main reasons: it is a border region with a significant indigenous population within a nation that has defined itself racially as white, and its...
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Borderline Offerings: Tolderías and Mapmakers in the Eighteenth-Century Río de La Plata
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 445–480.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Jeffrey A. Erbig, Jr. Abstract During the second half of the eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain commissioned two mapping expeditions to determine a border between Brazil and Spanish viceroyalties, agreeing for the first time to define territorial possession through collaborative cartographic...
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“As Pertaining to the Female Sex”: The Legal and Social Norms of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 39–72.
Published: 01 February 2016
... defines businesswomen as exceptional. An analysis of female economic activity, along with the institutional structures regulating their market participation, suggests that gender shaped women's entrance into the market but only narrowly affected their pursuits. Recognizing the various ways that women...
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Introduction: Researching and Rethinking the Labors of Love
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2011
... the historical contingencies of reproductive labor with particular attention to the specificities of social relations, the impact of modernization and industrialization, and the role of policy makers and state agencies. These studies underscore the challenges of defining and researching this understudied area...
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Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 August 2018
... were central to articulating divergent political agendas and defining national differences as racial differences. Chilean tales about emancipating Chinese slaves affirmed Chile's superiority over despotic Peruvians. Moreover, in stories about a Chinese oath, Chileans affirmed their civilizing mission...
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The Meeting of Revolutionary Roads: Chilean-Cuban Interactions, 1959–1970
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the Left needs to be placed in a broad context defined by the complex unfolding of domestic, hemispheric, and international transformations shaping Latin America in the 1960s. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 “Yes, categorically, in this specific moment, in Chile, I believe...
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Napalm Colonization: Native Peoples in Brazil's Aeronautical Frontiers
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 461–489.
Published: 01 August 2021
... outposts and settlements. This article introduces the term aeronautical frontier to define unique regions where flying was the primary mode of transportation. While much of the discourse on Indigenous peoples and aviation has focused on defensive reactions to the incoming airplanes, this article shows how...
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