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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 362.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Dario Moreno Explaining the Reagan Years in Central America: A World System Perspective . By Brown Jeremy M. . Lanham : University Press of America , 1995 . Bibliography. Index, xi, 300 pp. Cloth , $49.00 . Paper , $29.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 February 1974
...Lester D. Langley The Cuban Missile Crisis . Edited by Divine Robert A. . Chicago , 1971 . Quadrangle Books . Bibliography . Pp. 248 . Cloth. $8.95 ; Paper. $2.65 . Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis . By Allison Graham T. . Boston , 1971...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 101–132.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of some of Brazil's most important figures, and for nearly a century it has attained a mythic status in folklore and political history. Seeking to both explain and intervene in this legend, I argue that the myth of the Prestes Column emerged from and remained tethered to the stigmatized image...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2015
... music. That process helped marimberos to open space for themselves in regional society and to turn vallenato into a supreme expression of Colombian popular culture. This essay examines that cultural-political process while seeking to explain why the marimberos' role in vallenato's history has been...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 427–454.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... Using mortgage contracts and probate records recorded by notaries, this article analyzes the participation of women in the local mortgage market, taking into account the legal context in which it developed, and explains how legal tradition and civil codes contributed to the distortions that affected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the region engaged in long-range raiding. Their rise is explained here by showing that the original core of the group, some 200 slaves taken from two Portuguese vessels by Dutch privateers in 1636, were prisoners of war captured from the army of Mbwila, a small kingdom in today's Angola. Their cohesion...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 377–406.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Adrian Masters Abstract This article explains two unique aspects of the New World Spanish empire: its production of hundreds of thousands of royal decrees, and the unique categories that these edicts contained, such as mestizo and mulato . I outline the petition and response system, through which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 265–295.
Published: 01 May 2021
...: the Liberal triumph over Conservatives, Liberal dictatorship, and democratic revolution. To the contrary, practices of charity reveal the continuity of these political forms. This article explains the three models of charity that characterized modern Guatemala— caridad , beneficencia , and asistencia social...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 173–209.
Published: 01 May 2008
... these intraregional transfers of revenues. The crown barely controlled the system; yet it acted as the ultimate arbiter of a very flexible arrangement that effected the distribution of the fiscal burden across colonial regions and economic sectors. This setup explains the lack of serious challenges from within during...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 643–673.
Published: 01 November 2009
... on the threshold of history and on the borders of the intelligible. However, the impossibility of explaining her actions in a rational way constitutes a formidable challenge for the historian. In this respect, the article is also a reflection on the limits and possibilities of the representative faculties...
View articletitled, History and the Contours of Meaning: The Abjection of Luisa Nevárez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2013
... efforts helps to explain why a devotion so carefully managed for enlightened audiences was nevertheless cut from old cloth. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 From behind glass at the back of the parish church of Our Lady of the Angels in a working-class neighborhood in Mexico City...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 May 1973
... goals: (1) to explain the effects on the Argentine army of a dichotomy in institutional values, and (2) to describe Argentine nationalism, especially those nationalist attitudes held by the leaders of the armed forces. The first of these goals is stated quite explicitly, but the second is not (except...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 736–737.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Schmidt-Nowara's intellectual biography. Therein, Jacobson explains how, as a product of the reinvigorating studying of imperialism at the University of Michigan in the 1990s, Schmidt-Nowara was influenced by “smasher[s] of paradigms” including Rebecca Scott, Geoff Eley, Seymour Drescher, Josep Maria...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 February 2005
... and the Indies, often speaking Indian languages as well as Spanish, they undertook a self-conscious effort to explain one side to the other. In the nineteenth century, the role of informational intermediary was often filled by the travelers whose sketches and prose brought vivid accounts of Latin American ways...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 814–815.
Published: 01 November 2002
... pp. Paper , $26.00 . Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 In her recent contribution to Ohio University Press’s Latin America Series, Rachel May attempts to explain the evolution of “popular organizations” in response to political violence between 1954 and 1985. According to May...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 August 2004
... explains the change in journalistic behavior and content. He shows that political liberalization matters at two notional moments. First, the government must significantly weaken censorship and tolerate more independent coverage, thereby opening the floodgates. Yet, as Lawson demonstrates, the government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 540–542.
Published: 01 August 1974
... the author’s unconscious self-censorship does not explain his ambivalence toward Salazar. Perhaps it stems from a need to justify. To compensate for their shame over Portugal’s backwardness, some Portuguese insist on defending their country: a tendency shared by Oliveira Marques. An outspoken liberal, an anti...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 699–700.
Published: 01 November 1995
... unconvincing manner. Nevertheless, her book will stand as a milestone on the road to more satisfying holistic explanations of village-level environmental processes in Central America. Given this general failure adequately to prioritize the various social, economic, and ecological factors used to explain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 756–757.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Badillo, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Marina Herrera, and Ana María Díaz-Stevens. These fine investigative essays search for the social and national identities of Hispanics, along with some of the problems they have faced. The articles also seek to explain how Catholic reforms, such as the Cursos de...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 310–311.
Published: 01 May 1995
... inequalities, financial policies and the state, the interaction of foreign and domestic finance, and a couple of introductory ones on the colonial and postindependence history of finance in Peru are grouped around the principal chapter, which presents and explains the domestic financial structures. Quiroz...
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