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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 361–391.
Published: 01 August 2008
... pulpería. She planted 6,000 grapevine plants, becoming one of the nine largest wine growers in Mendoza. But most important of all was Doña Melcho-ra’s industrial establishment. With a capacity for 630 arrobas (1 arroba = 35.6 liters), Doña Melchora’s winery was one of the three largest in Mendoza...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1950) 30 (3): 336–337.
Published: 01 August 1950
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 463–501.
Published: 01 August 2000
... entire sets of actors off-stage in order to simplify their plots. In the case of the Honduran banana industry, the actors who have largely been left out of the drama are the small-scale growers ( poquiteros ), whose initiative and labor helped to give rise to the industry in the late nineteenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 February 1988
... of commerce between cacao growers, merchants, and the Dutch and warned that unless the king acted, major amounts of crown income would be diverted to Dutch coffers. 5 Eight years later, the king and his ministers responded to Dutch incursions into the province by accepting the advice of Basque merchants...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 796–797.
Published: 01 November 1989
... trees. The coffee growers’ power was based on their ability to control coffee policy and labor costs. The coffee growers replaced the colonato system with wage labor only when they lost control of labor costs because of protective legislation. The Rural Labor Statute of 1963 forced the growers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 289–290.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Dennis N. Valdés The 1936 citrus strike, the first large-scale strike in the industry, represented a turning point both for agricultural labor and for the villages. It further radicalized workers and brought down the wrath of growers. The third player, the Mexican consulate, intervened...
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O Marquês de Pombal e o Vinho do Porto. Dependência e Subdesenvolvimento em Portugal no Século xviii
Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 1982
... sources, the author sheds new light on the origins and activities of the General Company of the Cultivation of the Vine of the Upper Douro, the most successful of the crown monopolies initiated by Pombal. As Schneider shows, the company was primarily established to protect the great noble wine growers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 November 1995
... with Latin American social movements that endeavor radically to alter their societies. The hazards faced by Midwest farmworkers before their successful unionization included low wages, involuntary pay reductions, lack of the benefits extended to other U.S. workers, growers’ use of pesticides that damaged...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 May 2009
... central to the way money was made in Potosí. Recognizing the activities of the female sellers of coca in Potosí represents the greatest contribution of this book; however, the book offers more. Numhauser describes the other players: growers, speculators, and merchants. She explains how markets arose...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 721–723.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to grow it. This led to a distinction between “industrial” and “artisanal” dendê, in which the latter term referred to that grown by small farmers with limited resources—in other words, the “traditional” Afro-Bahian growers (p. 239). Today, dendê continues to be the purview of both industrial growers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (4): 544–566.
Published: 01 November 1965
... America. 24 The consulado members, in their arguments against the price-fixing and indigo growers’ society, repeatedly emphasized the relationship between prosperity and unrestricted, unhampered trade. They did not, however, carry this concept of free trade beyond their own specific need to reduce...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 May 1987
... patterns will be analyzed to trace the springs of cañero militancy and cohesion. In particular, discussion will focus on why Tucumán’s cane growers (in contrast to counterparts in the pampa region) were able to exert pressure on local and national Radical party officials to secure favorable action...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 February 1977
... the struggle of the union during the late 1960s to organize workers, the boycott of table grapes, the signing of contracts in 1970. Books VI and VII poignantly detail the UFWA struggle to survive the collusion between the Teamsters and growers, and attacks from the Nixon administration. The book closes...
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Small and Medium Slaveholdings in the Coffee Economy of the Vale do Paraiíba, Province of Saão Paulo
Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 259–281.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., and 96.3 percent in São José dos Campos. “Capitalists” (moneylenders) had average slaveholdings similar to those of agricultural producers and sugar millers. Finally, as expected, Bananal’s coffee growers had the largest average slaveholdings—around three times larger than the second-largest slaveholders...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 225–266.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of agronomy and the first experimental station was only founded in 1887. Individual growers adapted to local conditions on an ad hoc basis. Brazilian fazendeiros’ success at overwhelming and expanding the world market for coffee, however, proved to them that their trial and error methods sufficed. Formal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 701–702.
Published: 01 November 1997
... labor in the industry since its onset. The Anglo-American conquest marked a precipitous decline in the status of both Mexicans and Indians. Mexican landowners were quickly dispossessed, while Anglo lemon growers established holdings, including the Limoneira Ranch in 1893, which became the largest citrus...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 May 1970
... the industrialization policy did not favor private Brazilian firms. For the allocation of foreign exchange and credit discriminated in favor of foreign and government firms and resulted in the creation of public enterprises in power, petroleum, steel, and chemicals. Leff’s observation that neither coffee growers nor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (3): 598–599.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... Index . xi , 242 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the fascinating story of the contest between the United Fruit Company and Ecuadoran banana growers between 1900 and 1995. Rather than present...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 690–692.
Published: 01 November 2023
... intermediaries, the dealers who bought leaf from the growers, processed it, and then sold it to the manufacturers. Baldrich convincingly argues that the transformation from general merchants to specialized tobacco leaf dealers and from independent dealers into corporate ones—together with the added pressures...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 May 2005
... conclusions. The author’s findings differed from what she expected when she set out to track the roots of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution in the country’s economic history. Among other things, Charlip found that—despite landholding concentration—small- and medium-sized growers held most of the land...
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