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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2015
... As unexpectedly as money, status, and fame came to Chijo, they melted into thin air: “Life! What a beautiful opportunity, it vanished like hurricane winds,” he lamented in the only segment of the surviving tapes in which he talked about his ephemeral prosperity. 54 Indeed, the “hurricane winds” of the 1970s...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Hurricane</span> Winds: Vallenato Music and Marijuana Traffic in Colombia's First Illegal Drugs Boom
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 376–377.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Ray F. Broussard The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane . By Mcgrath John T. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2000 . Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 239 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright 2003 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 303–334.
Published: 01 August 1992
.... 8, 1867, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid (cited hereafter as AHN M), Ultramar, leg. 379, ex. 10. On the hurricane of San Narciso see Vicente Fontán y Mera, La memorable noche de San Narciso y los temblores de tierra (San Juan: Imprenta del Comercio, 1868); and Salivia, Historia de los...
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View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Hurricane</span> of San Ciriaco: Disaster, Politics, and Society in Puerto Rico, 1899–1901
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 545–547.
Published: 01 August 2019
... this book accessible to undergraduates and nonspecialists concerned with how societies respond to environmental hazards and climate change. As ocean temperatures rise, hurricanes will become fiercer than ever before witnessed—even in the longue durée of Schwartz's narrative. The insights of Sea of Storms...
View articletitled, Sea of Storms: A History of <span class="search-highlight">Hurricanes</span> in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 744–745.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Walter Gillis Peacock Hurricanes and Society in British Greater Caribbean, 1624 – 1783 . By Mulcahy Mathew . Early America : History, Context, Culture . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2006 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 257 pp...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 365–367.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Matthew Mulcahy Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba . By Pérez Louis A. Jr . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2001 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 216 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 273.
Published: 01 May 1964
...Charles W. Arnade Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870 . By Ludlum David M. . Boston , 1963 . American Meteorological Society . Maps. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 198 . Paper. Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Attention should be called to this first-rate...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 103–104.
Published: 01 February 2013
.... Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This study presents tantalizing evidence that hurricanes and other climate extremes exercised a powerful influence over colonial policy affecting Spanish-ruled Cuba during the second half of the eighteenth century. The book’s trans...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 May 1970
... of the last two sentences to the text. Professor Keen now requests that all interested scholars should delete these sentences from the article, since they do not accurately represent his views. 1 Ronald L. Ives, “Hurricanes of the West Coast of Mexico,” Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Science...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 November 2009
... In the preface to his book on the people of Cayey, Fernando Picó quickly traces the economic changes that have shaped the town since its founding in the late eighteenth century. Cayey was a center of coffee production and cattle ranching under Spanish rule. The U.S. invasion and the 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 February 2023
... within enclosures,” noting that Cancún's expansion largely occurred through disaster capitalism (p. 40). After Hurricane Gilbert struck Cancún in 1988, hoteliers used public resources to rebuild privatized spaces. Similarly, the proliferation of all-inclusive resorts and high-rise condos in the aftermath...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 555–557.
Published: 01 August 2011
... through the idioms of patronage and social mobility with gender and race connotations. Trujillo arose out of problematic circumstances to which he offered solutions: the US military occupation and the hurricane of 1930 that destroyed the capital city. Derby offers innovative interpretations of how the US...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 523–524.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., not the least of which were Hurricane Katrina and multiple bouts with cancer, but he never lost his indefatigable good spirit. He was an enormously positive presence in the lives of many. Richmond was a consummate scholar, mentor, colleague, and friend. In a profession in which large egos often prevail...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 690–692.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the 1898 invasion by the United States, the devastating hurricane of 1899 named San Ciriaco, and the one-two punch of a shift from a leaf market dominated by Cuba and Spain to a US-focused tobacco market followed by the rapid expansion of tobacco cultivation in the highlands. The Hermanos Cheos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 777–779.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the colonies on the Isle of Pines began even before ratification of the Hay-Quesada Treaty. Unmet expectations and bankruptcies took a toll, along with a devastating hurricane in 1917 and an increase in US tariffs in 1922 that made the isle's main exports less competitive. Notwithstanding colonists' lobbying...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 2025
... 2025 Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's sweeping history of Puerto Rico offers readers a panoramic and personal account of the archipelago from pre-Columbian Taíno culture to the post–Hurricane Maria era of Bad Bunny. Mixing political and cultural lenses, Puerto Rico: A National History asks readers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 706–707.
Published: 01 November 2023
... “the modern Caribbean population,” which is “mainly one of African ancestry” (p. 184). In the last main chapter, “Natural Disasters in the Caribbean to 1850,” Stuart Schwartz and Matthew Mulcahy turn to impacts of hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, drought, and pests...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11684202.
Published: 30 December 2024
... on the island; the electri cation of the countryside; the expansion of hurricane-resistant houses, schools, and hospitals; and the construction of roads, bridges, and dams throughout the UNCORRECTED PROOFS 384 HAHR / May island. Moreover, the PRRA trained and employed thousands of Puerto Ricans, from engineers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 192.
Published: 01 February 1974
... various parts of the globe would lead to accurate measurements of the distance from earth to the sun. The chief astronomer of the group, Jean Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche, wrote this brief memoir of the voyage, which includes a hurricane in Veracruz, the trek across Mexico, the difficulties of performing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 February 1963
..., would have appeared caricatures. Having achieved credibility for his theme through superb writing, which includes descriptions of a West Indian earthquake and a hurricane in the Jamaican hills, Hughes constructs an art gallery in the spirit of Les Incorrigibles. As each event unfolds every character...
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