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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 473–474.
Published: 01 August 1976
... an extraordinarily detailed and erudite study of Lorenzana’s career up to 1772. A second volume covering subsequent years is apparently projected. The author’s main concern in his first chapters is to trace the archbishop’s intellectual formation. Lack of specific data forces Sierra Nava into a good deal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 514–515.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of cities in the civilizing process, the classical past became what MacCormack calls “a springboard of cognition” (p. 14) for Spaniards to understand the peoples of the Andes in the wake of conquest. Most strikingly, MacCormack shows how several erudite indigenous Andean scholars entered...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 398–399.
Published: 01 May 1984
... thousand copies, is divided between a little more than a hundred pages of text and over two hundred pages of documents, each preceded by Viñas’s opinionative and erudite introductions. This is definitely a work for the specialist, particularly the two-thirds of the book dealing with documentation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 May 1965
... of such a work is presumably to present historical material in a more interesting, dramatic way. The book must stand or fall as a novel and/or biography. It is here that the reviewers are puzzled. For while Miss Gillmor reveals enormous erudition in weaving her chronicles into a narrative, the story is often...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 August 2006
... and nuance of her spiritual life was breathtaking. Whence these imaginative flights of fancy? And why was a woman allowed to dilate on these visions? Gunnarsdóttir is at her erudite best when addressing these questions. Her explanations involve both the local religious context and trends within...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 140–142.
Published: 01 February 1991
.... Bound within their famous orange covers, these “notes” helped publicize for more than forty years pithy and erudite studies that originally had appeared in Port-au-Prince, Cairo, Dakar, or obscure provincial French journals. The regular bibliographical surveys Debien began publishing in 1947 became...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 February 1975
... of times an author cites his own work. Smith and Portes tie for first place in that important category. Finally, there is the Index of Erudition, in which the historian excels, followed at a distance by Hunt, the anthropologist. The Index of Erudition is measured by the number of footnotes that the author...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 120–122.
Published: 01 February 1973
...John Leddy Phelan In the meantime we should acknowledge that once again we owe Edmundo O’Gorman a debt of gratitude for this latest expression of his erudition and his intellectual audacity. Torquemada, whose originality and importance has been generally under-estimated as I first pointed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 679–683.
Published: 01 November 2023
... 1970s, Florescano became for decades a gravitational force in Mexican historiography. He was a prolific historian who moved freely, with precision, erudition, and ingenuity, from pre-Hispanic times to the present, from economic to cultural histories; he sought zoom-ins in order to conceive great...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 549–552.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and energy resources. For Arnaldo Córdova, national sovereignty and the spirit and the letter of the 1917 constitution were sacrosanct. These were not mechanical beliefs; they were grounded in an unusually erudite appreciation of Mexican development. Learning from the lessons of history was something...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 528–533.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., broadening his perspectives, and bringing his astounding erudition to bear on new areas. He left us at the height of his considerable talents, but he also left an influential body of scholarship and many personal relationships that will make him often cited, long remembered, and sorely missed. Numerous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 786–789.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... Narrow, nation-based studies need not apply. This is all very exciting, but how this model and the book’s 23 essays relate is unclear. Most of the contributions are erudite, some even brilliant, but as whole they do not flesh out the epistemological and methodological proposals sketched...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3): 528.
Published: 01 August 1972
... A welcome addition to the growing number of reprinted nineteenth-century travel accounts. Although often marred by false erudition, Ewbank’s work is both entertaining and insightful. The urbane American was especially fascinated by religious festivals and slave life. Most of his experience was limited...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 357–358.
Published: 01 May 1979
... Chilean society. Pleasant and engaging in style, the work is unencumbered by footnotes or other traces of scholarly paraphernalia and, thus, seems intended for popular consumption. The author makes a point of declaring that he wished to avoid the perils of erudition, a danger which he professes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 945–949.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., Asia, Australia, and Europe. Stylishly attired, witty, and seemingly self-effacing, he charmed, informed, and intimidated his audiences with his exceptional but never pretentiously displayed erudition. That erudition rested upon an unrivaled knowledge of published sources and a selective knowledge...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 758–759.
Published: 01 November 1968
...Grace Lee Nute All three essays are heavily annotated and display great erudition in the field of Atlantic exploration, both before and after Columbus’ expeditions. An occasional lapse from the author’s commendable practice of translating his quotations from Portuguese sources makes now...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 174.
Published: 01 February 1982
... of radicalization in the latter, corresponding to the radicalization of the revolutionary process itself. Noyola provides a solid and erudite summary of Cuban economic history with many pertinent references to similarities and differences culled from the Latin American record. His depiction of Cuba’s economic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 159.
Published: 01 February 1963
... . Pp. 121 . Paper. Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 This is a new edition of a work first published in Santiago, Chile, in 1897. Such editions of old, scarce and erudite bibliographies are always to be welcomed. The nine-page prologue by Lise Paret-Limardo makes this edition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 583.
Published: 01 August 1979
... it, and also to erudite treatment of unemployment, welfare, legislation, and nonmigrant alien aspects. Discussions of tramps, fallen professionals, child labor, and the devastating “dead time” were enlightening. Detracting slightly from this comprehensive reference work were omissions of 1918-1945 efforts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 606–607.
Published: 01 November 1963
..., ” is by Broersma, the Dutch mining engineer upon whose competence and cooperation the nationalized Bolivian tin mines have very much relied and who is Gerente General of the Corporación Minera. Both studies are valuable and show erudition. They are a clear exposé and history of the complicated international...
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