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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 February 1970
... government support, insisting that Brazil needed nuclear power. Until recently, however, government officials in the electric power industry took the contrary position that nuclear power was not economically feasible as compared to alternative power sources. The relationship of technology and science...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 585.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Peter Evans Transnational Conglomerates and the Economics of Dependent Development: A Case Study of the International Electrical Oligopoly and Brazil’s Electrical Industry . By Newfarmer Richard . Greenwich : JAI Press, Inc. , 1980 . Tables. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Appendixes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 November 2018
...G. Antonio Espinoza The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876–1910 . By Ronald Briggs . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2017 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 254 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and prosecuting a modern crime and thus to explore how notions of policing, private property, space, honor, and even decency influenced how people secured and used electricity. Using 63 cases tried before the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal (Federal District Higher Court) and newspaper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1954) 34 (2): 251–255.
Published: 01 May 1954
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Rodrigo Millán Valdés The book is an excellent work that uses primary sources from Valparaíso—newspapers, government documents, letters, and transport and electricity companies' archives—and a good knowledge of the historiography regarding Valparaíso and Viña del Mar's urbanization. The author...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11543103.
Published: 25 September 2024
... transformations underway with the adoption of a socialist centrally planned economy. Chapter 2, Electri cation or Death, discusses the efforts of the post-1959 socialist government to expand the National Electricity System (SEN). As Cederlo¨ f argues, Two basic assumptions underpinned Cuban Marxist debate...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 February 1981
...- and white-collar electrical workers employed by Mexico’s government-owned electric power industry. Although the editors briefly summarize the subsequent chapters in their introduction, there is no concluding chapter in the collection, and, indeed, to write one would have been a formidable task...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 116–124.
Published: 01 February 1946
... patent in the United States. The approximate date of the organization of each is given in parentheses. 1. The Electrical Company of Cuba (1883)1 2. The Mexican Telephone Company (1882) 3. The West India Telegraph and Telephone Company (1883?)2 4. The Colombia and Panama Telegraph and Telephone Company...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 356–358.
Published: 01 May 2011
... was the modernizing conduit for the country, but there is no adequate definition of what is meant by modernization. The few examples given refer to the haphazard development of townships that became cities. Possible indicators of modernity, such as the introduction of electricity, banking facilities, or sports played...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 797–798.
Published: 01 August 2001
... Velasco, Eduardo Flores, Alma Parra, and Edgar Gutiérrez present a countrywide overview of the modernization of Porfirian mining. And Atlántida Coll-Hurtado and María Sánchez-Salazar document how electricity became the motor force in modernization as it revolutionized extraction and smelting at the end...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 393–395.
Published: 01 May 2000
...), and then as Bank chairman from 1909 to 1918. The second chapter, “The Golden Age,” covers the involvement in Latin America of Standard Oil of New Jersey, United Fruit, Asarco, General Electric, National City Bank, and International Telephone and Telegraph. The reader may have reservations about O’Brien’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (1): 111–139.
Published: 01 February 2009
... and popular needs more generally, such as water, electricity, sewage disposal, street planning, sanitation, education and adult literacy, health centers, etc.” 5 Generally, CDPs organized around issues of neighborhood development; the struggle against economic exploitation, hoarding, the black market...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 221–254.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... The city council and mayor expanded the water supply, built municipal sewers in areas that the private company declined to serve, and — after some shady dealings and a court defeat — signed a concession for electric streetlights and trolley cars. Cabinet ministers, particularly the ministers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 83–110.
Published: 01 February 1994
... on their successes or failures that is still lacking. 3 By the end of World War I, four private tramway companies handled 86 percent of all passenger traffic in Buenos Aires. These were the Anglo Argentine Tramways Company Ltd., the Southern Electric Tramways Company, the Buenos Ayres Town and Docks...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 839.
Published: 01 November 1970
.... Clearly Tovar views Venezuela’s condition of underdevelopment as a function of the imbalances which he observes in the structure of its economically active population, in the organization of its agricultural sector, in the production and distribution of its electrical power, and in the salaries of its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 602.
Published: 01 August 1984
... udley ; Technological Change in the Thermal Electricity Generating Industry, M anuel R amírez G.; Plant Size, Factor Proportions, and Efficiency in Colombian Industry, J ohn T odd ; The Utilization of Fixed Industrial Capital in Colombia: Some Empirical Findings, F rancisco T houmi ; Trade...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 504.
Published: 01 August 1976
... Americanists may be particularly interested in the case study of how an inflexible American aid policy interfered with the development of a Brazilian electric power project. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 658.
Published: 01 November 1964
... justly in order to increase production, and our farmers should receive cheap, long-term credit, access roads, pure drinking water, schools, electricity, and public health measures.” The photographs are superb, and were made available by the Shell Oil Co. and the Ministerio de Fomento...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 225–235.
Published: 01 May 1967
... indicates, he has calculated a way to deliver ore to Rio for the cheap price of 7 shillings f.o.b. His figures are persuasive. The secret lies in his use of diesel-electric locomotives and special cars for the Central Railway which in all previous studies presented the biggest problem. The diesel-electric...
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