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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 May 1988
... . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 In this ambitious work, Jay Kinsbruner examines and compares the grocery stores of Puebla and Mexico City, Caracas, and Buenos Aires during the period from 1750 to 1850. His study focuses specifically on the entrepreneurship of grocers, the capitalization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 387–388.
Published: 01 May 1971
... in history.” By name, Manuel is as well-known as any Portuguese monarch. He saw himself as the first Lord of the Conquest, Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India: a jealous rival dubbed him the Grocer-King. Strangely enough amidst all the myriad works on the expansion from Prince...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 May 1998
... of depth and acuity into the work of previous researchers. The essays serve mainly to reinforce what we already know about the retail grocers and their small stores. Here and there, however, the essays do add new information, regarding, for instance, house ownership, personal effects, and methods...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (3): 510–512.
Published: 01 August 2005
... and Spanish grocers as the former (presumed to be the underdogs) succeeded in gaining rights to expand their commercial activities in Quito’s markets. Gauderman’s work will undoubtedly influence debate on gender and Latin American history, and thus a couple of caveats are in order. Gauderman...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 829–830.
Published: 01 November 2006
... grocers), petty capitalism, and race relations in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. In the opening chapters Kinsbruner briefly discusses the Iberian origins of Spanish American colonial cities, as well as pre-Columbian urbanism. He also provides some background on the founding of colonial cities...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 February 2017
... such as tribute collection and rents (highlighting towns, villages, and haciendas), taxes on small businesses (mainly small grocers and taverns), and corporate taxation patterns (focused on the Catholic Church and municipalities). The argument agrees with much of the historiography that collection was undermined...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 433–461.
Published: 01 August 1990
... Although a systematic study of entrepreneurial activity at the lower reaches of the economic continuum has yet to be done, my own work on the small retail grocers in San Juan and Caracas suggests at most very few free people of color among them. 46 It would be ironic if a seemingly liberal attitude...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 422–433.
Published: 01 August 1965
... la baña.” See Ibid ., Jan. 4 , 1877. 29 La Colonia Española , Nov. 13, 1873. He defended the Spanish grocers as well. Ibid ., Oct. 27, 1873. 28 La Iberia , Feb. 11, 1875. Beginning with 1875 and continuing each year thereafter, the establishment printed the Almanaque de la...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 71–106.
Published: 01 February 2008
... extended workdays under the whip of the overseers, having no place to spend the night but in makeshift huts thatched with cane leaves. The minuscule wages were often encumbered with debt to either the company store or the grocers in the valley, who acted as hiring agents for the planters. In truth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (3): 421–448.
Published: 01 August 1975
... greater than that of grocers and innkeepers. One such person, who made his will in 1636, listed as possessions only 40 square varas of land, one mulatto slave, and two earthenware jars; he remained in debt for interest on censos. 36 Sumptuous domestic circumstances and the number of black slaves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (4): 571–594.
Published: 01 November 1978
..., should be distinguished from the city’s petty retailers who were largely tavernkeepers and grocers (vendeiros) and street venders ( regateiros ). The terminology used in this paper to identify various types of merchants is based on terms that appear in a variety of contemporary documents. 6...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 605–629.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., and Englishmen labored as tailors, masons, upholsterers, painters, blacksmiths, carpenters, grocers, watchmakers, and shopkeepers. Most sailors in the river trades probably came from the Italian seafaring city of Genoa as names like Repetto, Bruno, Bollo, and Rughi dominated the registry of boat crews. Spanish...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 609–635.
Published: 01 November 1981
.... This was a labor force of a somewhat different order, although as artisans, grocers, vegetable farmers, overseers, and, perhaps more than any other occupation, muleteers who served the increasingly distant arboledas , they were as closely dependent on the production and sale of cacao as the estate owners who...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 615–647.
Published: 01 November 1994
... , another Ensenada newspaper, published a tax registry of all businesses in the town. Of the 60 different taxpayers listed, at least 10 were Chinese— among them a factory and ice house owner, three grocers, two small shopkeepers, two launderers (including Sing Lee), a shoemaker, and a street vendor. Except...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 35–75.
Published: 01 February 2014
... shaped a rapidly changing society. But at the same time the character turned this stereotype on its head. 52 As the magazine Dinamis explained in 1969, Manolito was “the tenacious son of the neighborhood grocer, oblivious to anything not related to commercial success, who dreams of owning a chain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 205–245.
Published: 01 May 2006
... vendors, grocers, barbers, sailors, fishermen, and factory and construction workers, as well as the slaves that worked as cargo handlers and porters analyzed here. 33 Provision of the Treasury Council, 26 Aug. 1820, Collecção das Leis do Brazil de 1820 (Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1889...
