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Hispanic American Historical Review (1945) 25 (2): 285.
Published: 01 May 1945
...Alexander Marchant How the Church Grows in Brazil. A Study of the Economic and Social Basis of the Evangelical Church in Brazil . By Davis J. Merle . ( New York, London : Department of Social and Economic Research and Counsel, International Missionary Council , 1943 . Pp. 167...
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in Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 November 1995
Map 1: Dominican Sugar- and Rice-growing Areas, 1949–50 Note: Río Haina and Catarey were Trujillo’s mills. Sources: Ozama plantation: “Plan of Ozama Sugar Company Ltd. Holdings, drawn by E. C. Pratt, Chief Civil Engineer, Central Romana Corp., Dec. 1943,” BCSA, Vancouver. Sugar factories
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Julia Rodriguez Abstract This essay describes historians’ recent and growing awareness of the significance of science in modern Latin America. It focuses first on the work and influence of the historian Nancy Leys Stepan, who in the past 30 years pioneered the joining of methods in the history...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 107–141.
Published: 01 February 2012
... during the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1960s, however, many had become opposed to foreign mountaineers and scientists “intervening” in the Andes. World War II, natural disasters, the weak nation-state, coast-sierra divisions, growing Peruvian expertise in science and engineering, and the rise of an Andean...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 703–736.
Published: 01 November 2012
... attempts to politically control the labor movement as key tactics in its broader struggle against the Peruvian Communist Party. In a context of growing repression of everything associated with Communism, APRA proved adept at channeling, and benefiting from, a form of labor anti-Communism, or anti-Communism...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 207–236.
Published: 01 May 2014
... estates, or haciendas, where settlements existed on privately owned land? How did local governance function in the absence of public space for republican institutions to grow in? This article examines the challenges to landed power initiated by requests from two hacienda communities in the state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 95–129.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and the Left also demanded major redistribution. These divisions influenced the multiple changes in hydrocarbon policy after 1952. An aversion to radicalization contributed to MNR leaders' 1955 decision to promote private investment in accordance with US wishes. Soon thereafter, a growing nationalist coalition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 435–470.
Published: 01 August 2009
...” of the population to improve the Brazilian nation. Analysis of a broad range of archival and published primary sources reveals the gradual racialization of the DGE’s institutional definition of “progress.” The study contributes to a growing body of research that examines how racial thought influenced...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 February 2010
... Central Americans in Guatemala’s case, Grenada’s Caribbean peers in 1983, and the U.S. media campaigns waged by Manuel Noriega’s opposition before the invasion of Panama. Skeptics will doubt that Grow can dismiss security and economic motives in favor of these “softer” ones. But he successfully shows...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., they have never been great rice producers. Although Cuban landscapes, especially in the westernmost third of the island, are suited to rice growing, at many points in their history Cubans have imported 90 percent or more of their rice. This mismatch between production and consumption is what Pérez wishes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Aires to raise cattle and sheep for the international market, and smaller and more scattered plots in agricultural zones to grow grains for domestic consumption. Some continuities from previous times persisted, though. Studying inventories of the largest landowners in Buenos Aires around 1850, Juan...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 February 1985
... in the United States some syndicalist leaders veered more to trade union activity around more purely political questions. With the outbreak of World War II, both labor groups tended to become more “political.” Their growing support of the Allied cause in the war, however, was often stated in terms...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 463–501.
Published: 01 August 2000
... in contributing to the evolution of export banana growing from a low-input system to one that was both labor- and capital-intensive. 120 By examining changes in the work of banana growing—and other agricultural industries for that matter— historians can begin to situate the lives of workers in specific spatial...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 779–781.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Christine Hünefeldt In spite of cabildo members’ growing awareness of their role in political matters, their negotiations with the audiencia and viceroy show them as driven more by the rapidly changing situation in Spain; in other words, the cabildo reacted to what happened in Spain rather than...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 721–723.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of Bahia's southern coast and visited the small towns and some of the dendê farms that he examines, Watkins explains how the dendê palm arrived in Brazil, how and why it took hold economically and culturally, while also evoking the geography and culture of the Bahian towns where it primarily grows today...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 812–813.
Published: 01 November 1996
... The number of publications on Bolivian mining continues to grow, a clear sign of an increasing interest in a key economic sector of Bolivian development. Manuel Contreras’ book joins contributions by Antonio Mitre, Gustavo Rodríguez, and Ricardo Godoy, to mention just a few. That this new book is the eighth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 626–627.
Published: 01 August 2000
...: in the face of several devastating epidemics and a growing awareness of the extent of endemic disease in the country’s interior, the Brazilian medical community realized that when one state invested in public health and its neighbors did not, that state’s efforts were squandered. Contagious diseases did...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 386–387.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a compelling case that challenges long-standing assumptions about slave production in Upper Guinea. This area was part of the “rice coast” or “windward coast,” the traditional rice-growing region of West Africa, which stretched from Senegal to Sierra Leone and Liberia. The author argues that the vast majority...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 1987
... of agrarian policy in Mexico since 1910 is an important contribution to the growing literature on land reform during and after the decade of the Mexican Revolution. Of particular value in this work is the linking of land distribution with the other agricultural needs perceived by the Mexican government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 371–373.
Published: 01 May 2012
...), it is certainly true that both the ideological orientation and the architecture of the Mexican regime were in transition after 1940. A key part of this shift, Bertaccini goes on, is reflected in the party’s efforts at that time to incorporate the urban middle classes into its ranks. These groups were growing...
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