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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 535–536.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Rebecca Dufendach The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas . By Jennifer Scheper Hughes . North American Religions . New York : New York University Press , 2021 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii, 245 pp. Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Ryan M. Alexander Abstract This article examines Mexico City's typhus epidemic of 1915–16 and makes three central claims. First, the federal response to the outbreak, while laudable in light of the grim circumstances, was disjointed and excessively bureaucratic. Second, the epidemic drew out long...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 February 1967
...Alfred W. Crosby Epidemic Disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813. An Administrative, Social, and Medical Study . By Cooper Donald B. . Austin , 1965 . University of Texas Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies . Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 236 . Copyright 1967 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 592–593.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Blanca G. Silvestrini Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878 – 1930 . By Espinosa Mariola . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibiography. Index . 189 pp. Paper , $22.50 . Cloth , $55.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Ricardo D. Salvatore Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865–1908 . By Carlos S. Dimas . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiii , 321...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 766–767.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Ann Zulawski The Return of the Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth Century. By Cueto Marcos . The History of Medicine in Context . Burlington, Vt .: Ashgate , 2001 . Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 176 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Copyright 2003...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 717–719.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Daniel W. Gade A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective . By Alchon Suzanne Austin . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2003 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 214 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper, $22.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 580–581.
Published: 01 August 2012
...David Sowell Heather McCrea offers an innovative understanding of public health in Yucatán through her study of smallpox, cholera, and yellow fever epidemics, which “are conceptualized as diseased ‘moments’ ” that provide “insight into the processes of state-building and identity formation” (p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 481–515.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the defining characteristics of early colonial experience: epidemic disease and ongoing idolatries. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 And what if the recently converted Indians should revert to the vomit? The neophytes should certainly be punished if they revert to the vomit, commands...
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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 (2005) 85 (4): 722–723.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... Paper . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Liane Maria Bertucci’s Influenza, a medicina enferma chronicles the theories and lived experiences of institutions and individuals of all classes who negotiated, suffered through, recovered, and died from the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 321–337.
Published: 01 August 1967
... the great oceans hardly at all. Men lived at least in the same continents where their greatgrandfathers had lived and rarely caused violent and rapid changes in the delicate balance between themselves and their environments. Diseases tended to be endemic rather than epidemic. It is true that man did...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 338–343.
Published: 01 August 1967
.... 6 Pedro Simón, Segunda parte de las noticias historiales de las conquistas de tierra firme en las Indias Occidentales . Noticia 7, Chap. XXXIX, tells of a universal epidemic of smallpox that included Peru and Chile and destroyed one-third of the population “both Spanish and native.” In 1617...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 309–311.
Published: 01 May 1993
... of Americanists, held in Amsterdam in July 1988. Five of the monographs included here construct a chronology of pandemics and epidemics in particular areas and discuss the probable identification of these diseases from contemporary descriptions and current medical opinion. Hanns J. Prem (central Mexico), W...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 732–734.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the present with the past; and as narratives aiming at influencing future public health policy. The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America has a little bit of all these and is an important contribution to the quite scarce literature on this current epidemic in the region, especially when compared with the abundance...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1992
... nature of the efforts to eradicate yellow fever from the northern coast of Peru during the first years of the Augusto B. Leguía administration. A serious epidemic began in 1919, and ended in 1921 only with the intervention of the Rockefeller Foundation. The sanitary campaign directed by American...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 February 2017
... demographics when narrating how the missionaries' differing relationships with indigenous leaders (based on the sedentary/nomadic dichotomy), trade and mobility patterns, and dramatic climate swings (most notably in the Northern Hemisphere) influenced population growth after epidemics. He specifically cites...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 477–480.
Published: 01 August 1965
... prevailing view that epidemic disease rather than Spanish mistreatment was the paramount cause of this decline. I am inclined to reverse the order of importance of these factors and to stress the causal relationship between the mistreatment and the terrible mortality associated with the epidemics...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as wave after wave of epidemic disease reshaped the contours of native society. Each new epidemic created challenges both for the mendicant orders themselves and, quite clearly, for native peoples; key to Crewe's argument is his analysis of the meaning of these moments to native communities and the manner...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 November 1999
... chapters, Cook traces the origins and effects of the first pandemics in Mesoamerica and the Andes, the timing and impact of epidemics in the rest of the Americas, and regional outbreaks to 1650. Based primarily on the earliest written accounts —including codices, government documents, and the letters...
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