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...Mary Watters La Guaira: Causa y matriz de la independencia Hispano-Americana . By López Castro Fulgencio . ( Caracas : Editorial Elite , 1941 . Pp. 172 . Bs. 3 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Mary Watters La Ciudad Portatil. Historia de la Provincia de Trujillo . By Valero Américo Brioeño . ( Caracas : Ediciones de “Renovación” , 1939 . Pp. 173 . Bs. 4.00 .) Historia de la Guaira . By Valero Américo Briceño . ( Caracas : Coop, de Artes Gráficas , 1937 . Pp...

... héroes, y otra ser delinqüentes y criminosos.” 98 The commander of La Guaira spotted the second inconsistency in Gonzales's account. In February 1809, the British captured the French island of Martinique, where the Napoléon Le Grand was anchored. This action turned the privateer's officers...

..., AGS GM, leg. 5837; and interrogatorio of María del Rosario Varas y Varnola, La Guaira, Dec. 2, 1802, AGI CAR, leg. 103. 96 Mateo Gual to Arriaga, Cumaná, Apr. 30, 1755, AGI CAR, leg. 125; service record of Félix Farreras, Guayana, Nov. 1771, AGI CAR, leg. 138; “Primera Pieza de Autos de la...

... raíces de la nacionalidad (1959); El imperio del Brasil y el Río de la Plata: antecedentes y estallido de la Guerra del Paraguay (1961); Apuntes de historia cultural del Paraguay (1963); Los derechos del Paraguay sobre los Saltos del Guairá (1965); Breve historia del Paraguay (1965); Veinte...

..., and she compares them favorably with some other Latin American railroads. One of the few profitable lines, the Caracas–La Guaira railroad, made its money by importing items from the coast to Caracas. When bumper local crops flooded the city, or when a brewery opened in Caracas in 1891, imports dropped...

... chapters present case studies of lesser-known movements that were steeped in Venezuela's semiliterate political culture and included the participation of slaves, free Afro-descendant peoples, and white “dissident elite readers” (p. 71). One will not find the 1795 Coro rebellion, the 1797 La Guaira...

... the crown to finance a new fort to be built on the road to La Guaira. 44 Undoubtedly much impressed by the combined disasters of earthquake and crop blight, Caraqueños appealed to divine providence for assistance. A festival with the Virgin Mary as patron was held annually from 1638 to 1670 to plead...

... Cardozo, Elman R. Service, and others have not done better. Itatím, the short-lived (1593–1648) area of settlement between the Miranda and Apá rivers in what is now. the southern Mato Grosso, is almost an unknown of Paraguayan history. Like Guaira, its counterpart to the southeast, Itatím was settled...

... fathers, and merchants in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. For the Indians, the demographic consequences followed a familiar pattern. In the reducciones around Asunción and Xerez, population fell by 50 percent between 1555 and 1632. In the Guairá region, the decline exceeded 60 percent. Epidemic disease...

... by quinquennium every export item recorded, from exotics like guayucos and sangre de drago to wheat and cacao. An extensive appendix lists the record of every ship (ship name and type, name of master or captain, ports of origin and destination, and cargo) that entered and left La Guaira from 1601 to 1650...

... for a much-expanded Indian population (the Guairá missions of the Paranapané River area, for instance, had more than one hundred thousand inhabitants). Carbonell reminds us that the Indians’ hopes tapered well with the Jesuits’ rural development strategies. In general, we have seen much of this story...

... and the Paraguayan, has died. Now Paraguay is governed by conquerors, agents, merchants, and commerce-paid politicians.” Only the lingering issue of the Saltos del Guairá, and the conflicting Cardozo and Soler theses, are brought to contemporary diplomatic perspective. Analyses of Paraguayan diplomatic history...

... monopoly had succumbed to North American, English, and other European supplies. War also transformed intercolonial commercial relationships. Prior to 1797, ports such as Havana, La Guaira, Maracaibo, and Campeche fell under the “tentacles” of the Mexican merchant guilds, but with the opening of neutral...

... makes no attempt to excuse them (neither did Bolívar, on the whole). Both author and subject seem to feel that the exigencies of the struggle often explained tragic episodes (the War to the Death in Venezuela, the execution of eight hundred Spanish and Canarian prisoners in La Guaira, Bolívar’s betrayal...

... Guaira, and Curiepe, and they sent procuradores to Madrid to gain recognition for these towns from the king. The architecture of Coro, Puerto Cabello, Valencia, and Caracas was deeply influenced by Dutch designs. Finally, the entire economy of the Venezuelan coast and its hinterlands depended...

... those that the Spanish conducted, legal or otherwise, in ports open to foreign traffic. The slave who furtively transports a bag of cacao does not have the same power or play the same role in the contraband economy as the La Guaira port official who turns a blind eye to undeclared merchandise. Likewise...

... conspiracy in Madrid who were sent to the port of La Guaira, where they initiated an exciting career as writers and translators of revolutionary texts that circulated throughout the greater Caribbean. Mongey analyzes the power and limitations of the printed word in societies that lived at its margins...

... Spanish-Portuguese rivalry in that strategic area, beginning with the penetration of Guairá by the Spanish Jesuits in the early seventeenth century and concluding with the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1777. Economic matters are his second concern, and the shortest portion of the book treats political...

... accused Balmis of trickery. The mothers were upset “at being deprived of the promised benefaction,” but agreed (February 24) to let the expedition take the boys to La Guaira for a compensation of 50 pesos. During the long wait for winds, the vaccine pustule matured and dried up on one boy, another...