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Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol

Seth Garfield
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 358–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10369245
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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Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950

Edward Beatty
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 579–580.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9798820
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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A Refuge from Science: The Practice and Politics of Rights in Brazil's Vaccine Revolt

Pedro Jimenez Cantisano
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10025421
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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“La Raza Entra Por La Boca”: Energy, Diet, and Eugenics in Colombia, 1890–1940

Stefan Pohl-Valero
Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 455–486.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2694318
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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Words Spoken and Written: Divergent Meanings of Honor among Elites in Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande Do Sul

Karl Monsma
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 269–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1545692
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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Working Silver for the World: Mining Labor and Popular Economy in Colonial Potosí

Rossana Barragán
Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 193–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3824041
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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Spinsters, Gamblers, and Friedrich Engels: The Social Worlds of Money and Expansionism in Argentina, 1860s–1900s

Eduardo Elena
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 61–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9497200
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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Peruvian Cocaine Tangles: Arrests and Assertions of Innocence in Ayacucho's Drug Trade, 1976–1981

Jaymie Patricia Heilman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4376692
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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Stilt-Root Subsistence: Colonial Mangroves and Brazil’s Landless Poor

Shawn W. Miller
Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 223–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-83-2-223
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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Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution

Frederico Freitas
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 761–763.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10797840
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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El siglo de los vapores fluviales: 1840–1940

Frank Safford
Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 712–713.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-75.4.712
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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Oil and Nationalism in Argentina: A History

Paul B. Goodwin, Jr.
Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 346–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-60.2.346
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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Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas

Michael J. Gonzales
Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 754–756.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-74.4.754
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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San Jacinto 1: An Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia

A. C. Roosevelt
Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 738–740.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2007-048
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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The Financial Crisis of Abolition

Douglas C. Libby
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 564–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2010-030
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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El comercio exterior de México en la era del capitalismo liberal, 1870 – 1929

Alexander Dawson
Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 390–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2008-125
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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The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959–1962

Bianca Premo
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3484858
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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Carneros y Chuño: Price Levels in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Paul Gootenberg
Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 1–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-70.1.1
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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La entrevista de Guayaquil

J.R.S.
Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-47.1.140
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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A History of the Chilean Boundaries

D.J.G.
Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 176–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-56.1.176a
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...
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