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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 358–360.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Seth Garfield Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol . By Jennifer Eaglin . New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 268 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 579–580.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Edward Beatty Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 . By Germán Vergara . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $99.99 . Copyright ©...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Pedro Jimenez Cantisano Abstract This article considers the rights-based opposition that helped fuel Rio de Janeiro's 1904 Vaccine Revolt. I argue that the revolt was embedded in sociolegal conflicts about the policing of homes. In the early twentieth century, empowered by new laws, public health...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 455–486.
Published: 01 August 2014
... into the amount of fuel the body-machine needed for optimal performance depending on the work performed and environmental conditions. The main objective of this article is to highlight the role that this energy-centric conception of the body played in configuring a series of educational and public hygiene...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 269–302.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the population, fluency in written communication and accounting skills became important means to accumulate wealth and power, allowing individuals with these skills to occupy central positions in long-distance trade and patronage networks. Differences in the nature of honor also fueled disdain and hatred...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 193–222.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Rossana Barragán Abstract The silver produced by indigenous mine workers in Potosí, Bolivia, helped fuel early modern global trade. While historiography has analyzed the structure of the labor force, one important question has not been addressed: how workers themselves acted on and changed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 February 2022
... examines capital-fueled growth from the vantage of working-class sectors, observing how a mobile, multiracial workforce transformed investment flows into railways and other infrastructure. Although laborers did not control transborder movements of capital, their earning of wages was not just about survival...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... Ayacuchanos' devastating experiences of cocaine repression fueled anger toward the police, which Shining Path militants capitalized on early in their armed struggle. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 The vendor Claudia Ramírez García, in turn, was arrested and jailed simply for being...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 223–253.
Published: 01 May 2003
... was the principal fuel in coastal regions, due to its accessibility to water transport and its high quality. Red mangrove is extremely dense (1.20 specific gravity), making it a superior fuel whether in the form of raw firewood or charcoal. 21 Sugar millers in particular, but also whale oil processors, lime...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 761–763.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Frederico Freitas Agriculture's Energy ends with an epilogue that deals with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first presidency amid a second ethanol boom fueled by the development of flex-fuel cars in Brazil after 2003. Overall, Rogers does an outstanding job tracing the historical complexities...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Frank Safford The discussion of technical details makes clear why steam-powered paddle-wheel boats competed with difficulty against diesel-powered propeller-driven craft. The combined weight of steam engines, fuel, water, and paddles was roughly six times that of diesel engines, fuel...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 346–347.
Published: 01 May 1980
... of natural resources. Professor Solberg, in this well researched and well written monograph, argues that although President Roque Saenz Peña was the first Argentine leader to outline an effective petroleum policy it was the sharp impact of World War I on the River Plate region, with concomitant fuel...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 754–756.
Published: 01 November 1994
... fueled the expansion of the country’s export economy and the improvement of its transportation systems; yet the railroads hauled raw materials to the border to fuel U.S. industrial expansion, while Mexican industry settled for supplying local markets. The thrust of Mexico’s economic policy was to attract...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 738–740.
Published: 01 November 2007
... having pots, the ancient people processed their food with ground-stone tools and cooked in pits in the ground, perhaps to conserve fuel. The modern staples of maize and manioc were not identified, and the nature of subsistence is uncertain as yet (the work is ongoing). Seeds, herbs, tree fruits...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 564–566.
Published: 01 August 2010
... reactions to the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It is argued that by expanding monetary circulation in reckless fashion and thus fueling diverse forms of speculation, successive financial authorities were almost exclusively concerned with appeasing powerful planter groups, most especially coffee...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 390–392.
Published: 01 May 2009
... was accompanied by deepening inequality, increased economic vulnerability, and political and social instability. Yes, exports fueled growth, and that growth entailed industrialization. And yes, declines in the terms of trade could be offset by increasing productivity and often were. But why was this period...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 May 2016
... revolutionaries who provisionally, then permanently, took over Fulgencio Batista's government. Nationalism and generational optimism too fueled the civil and state-organized student and youth groups that supported the early revolution. In the book's second part, Casavantes Bradford explores the government's...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 1–56.
Published: 01 February 1990
...). 1837 census data are cross-checked with trade estimates in Wilson to Palmerston, “Commercial Report on the Trade of Peru in 1837,” Sept. 29, 1838, FO 61/53. 25 Bread and fuel adjustments based on study of hospital budgets throughout the period; final calculations from Cuentas del Hospital Santa...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 140.
Published: 01 February 1967
... between the two liberators while at the same time adding fuel to the polemic which has long raged around the authenticity of the letter of August 29, 1822 from San Martín to Bolívar. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 La entrevista de Guayaquil . By Chaves Julio César...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 February 1976
...D.J.G. A History of the Chilean Boundaries . By Talbott Robert D. . Ames , 1974 . The Iowa State University Press . Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 134 . Paper . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Boundary disputes provided the fuel for many diplomatic...