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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Martha S. Santos The Realities of Images: Imperial Brazil and the Great Drought . By Greenfield Gerald . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , vol. 91 , pt. 1 . Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society , 2001 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxvi , 148...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 545–547.
Published: 01 August 2018
... proportion of the world these days. Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil . By Eve E. Buckley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 279 pp. Paper , $29.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1979
...). The reviewer is nevertheless left with the impression that there is very little hope of significant change in the socioeconomic structure of production and marketing, and that human suffering will continue to be associated with drought in Northeast Brazil. Although negative in its conclusions, this book should...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 375–400.
Published: 01 August 1992
... that emanating from Rio de Janeiro. Northeasterners themselves indicted the rotina , urged the adoption of more enlightened agricultural practices, and suggested that such techniques would translate into a better product. 46 And northeasterners often posited drought relief in terms that justified...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 467–499.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and agricultural bulletins, government correspondence, secondary works, and recent historical climatological data, I argue that environmental dynamics and political processes were intertwined in the four years preceding the revolution. Specifically, I contend that politico-environmental press coverage of drought...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Paul Ramírez; William B. Taylor Abstract Colonial inhabitants of Mexico City were accustomed to coping with natural disasters, including disease epidemics, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, which menaced rich and poor alike and stirred fervent devotion to miraculous images and their shrines...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 103–104.
Published: 01 February 2013
... obsessed with matters of race and hierarchy. Sherry Johnson identifies several instances in which climate extremes disrupted the food supply or otherwise influenced international affairs, including the disastrous confluence of a circum-Caribbean drought and an unprecedented spate of hurricanes in 1780...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 259–281.
Published: 01 May 1989
... by the 1877-79 drought crisis, corn and wheat prices, considered as representative of other prices in the region, increased by 70 percent and 41 percent respectively. Price inflation continued after 1900 at different rates, and placed additional pressure on the financial base of the orders. 25...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 November 1997
...César N. Caviedes Of similar catastrophic nature have been the droughts of northeastern Brazil, which are also climatologically associated with El Niño episodes on the Pacific side of South America. Famine, social unrest, pillage, and death ensued in northeastern Brazil whenever prolonged...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 August 2023
... left the region. The diversity of the book's case studies is fortified from the outset by a first chapter on the cycles of drought that wreaked havoc on the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that cultivated the (not always inaccurate) trope of an arid and destitute...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 35–71.
Published: 01 February 1991
... Plata and Andean regions in 1718-20. 17 The rest of the eighteenth century, in spite of recurrent demographic crises, exhibits a well-defined upward trend in indigenous population with its peak precisely in the 1800-1805 crisis. Due to their frequency, droughts are common phenomena...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 1979
.... It is an inspired and moving relation of droughts, frosts, crop failure, hunger, migration, and epidemics all tied to the cost of grain. The author eloquently evokes the lost world where public granaries provided only the flimsiest protection against nature and grain speculators. The final chapter reviews the late...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 526–527.
Published: 01 August 1973
... was better suited to recover from the economic ruin of the periodic droughts which affect the Inhamuns. The droughts merit a whole chapter in Chandler’s monograph, indicative of their social consequences for the Northeast. Some of Chandler’s most intriguing material is on the social history...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 545–547.
Published: 01 August 2009
... convincingly trace the demise of Yucatán’s henequen industry to the North American droughts of the late 1930s (which devastated harvests and diminished the demand for cordage at the same time as President Lázaro Cárdenas was breaking up henequen plantations), to competition from other henequen- and sisal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2006
... returning in a cyclical pattern of interregional migration. 123 Nor were all of the nordestino migrants desperately fleeing drought, since heavy movement to the Amazonian frontier persisted even after climatic conditions had improved by 1944 in the Northeast. 124 Just as the popular depiction of Rosie...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 August 1980
... a series of reports on weather conditions, harvest yields, and crop prices. 32 On first reading, these trimester and semi-annual reports that span more than two decades (1784-1808) reveal that the region suffered prolonged drought and acute shortages in 1783-1784 and 1803-1804. Both crises occurred...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 214–218.
Published: 01 May 1964
... in London with facility, all but wrecking the production from the Americas. 14 Even though the indigo grew wild in East Florida, tender care was given the plant during its period of growth. Two major problems confronted the planter during the indigo’s growing period; drought and caterpillars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): vi.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of Latin American Labor Organizations (1987) and currently is completing a monograph on the Great Drought. joan e. meznar is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She is currently revising a book-length manuscript on the transformation of the peasantry in the Brazilian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 513.
Published: 01 August 1976
... This is an outstanding example of regional interpretation. The Northeast of Brazil is widely known as a major poverty spot, and the poverty has traditionally been explained in terms of recurring floods and droughts. But Webb’s analysis throws new light on the complex interconnections among physical and cultural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 575–576.
Published: 01 August 1979
..., October 1978, several surveys of Mexican history published through the mid-1970s have unsuccessfully attempted to capture the complicated picture created by a deluge of indepth professional monographs. Perhaps one should not fault the author of the work discussed here for not ending our drought, if his...
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