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Forjando Patrimonio : The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 215–245.
Published: 01 May 2010
... here by popular struggles to retain objects in Teotihuacán, Tepoztlán, and Tetlama, communities that battled with the inspector of monuments Leopoldo Batres, the principal state official in charge of gathering antiquities. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 In October 1889, Mexico’s...
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Ladrones de Luz : Policing Electricity in Mexico City, 1901–1918
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., 18 Feb. 1918, AGN, TSJDF, box 1507, file 269076. 44. By contrast, working-class women, particularly marketwomen, redefined female morality “as inclusive of publicness.” Porter, “‘And That It Is Custom,’” 141. 43. Lipsett-Rivera, Gender , 14. 42. In a similar case, inspectors saw...
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The New Age of Andeans: Chronological Age, Indigenous Labor, and the Making of Spanish Colonial Rule
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 February 2023
... the construction of the tribute regime and the conversion of millions of Indigenous peoples into tributaries. Take, as just one example, a scene from a regional inspection carried out in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1562. The inspector Iñigo Ortiz de Zúñiga had received a commission to investigate Andean labor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 323–344.
Published: 01 May 1970
... the revenue to devote to public security. While the federal government retained overall control of the Security Guard through an inspector general’s department in the Ministry of Gobernación, the states handled most of the daily supervision and administration. The national government paid the mobile...
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A Refuge from Science: The Practice and Politics of Rights in Brazil's Vaccine Revolt
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
... personnel and equipment, judges depended on slow and often-ineffective procedures. The Supreme Court's Costa ruling had supposedly limited the expansion of administrative powers. Yet in practice the courts sanctioned or were simply unable to constrain the sanitary inspectors' actions. Although...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 365–379.
Published: 01 August 1968
... of the marquisate. 7 Because the Cortés family refused to recognize the viceroy’s right to appoint inspectors for factories in its holdings, and owing to the reports of grave abuses there, the royal government ordered that obrajes in the marquisate were not exempted from the general visita in progress. 8...
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Niños trabajadores y vida cotidiana en Medellín, 1900–1930
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 February 2001
... of Factory Inspectors” in 1918 at the urging of the Catholic Church and, especially, Jesuits associated with the Social Action movement. The archives of these “factory police” provide García Londoño with his most valuable information, as oversight of child labor was the responsibility of these inspectors...
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In the Shadow of the State: The Politics of Denunciation and Panegyric during the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1940-1958
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 295–344.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the creation of “inspectors,” or spies, created a “panoptical” regime in which no one escaped the purview of the state, and everyone was implicated. Once their findings were broadcast nationally in the Foro Público, the entire nation was called upon to judge the crimes and misdemeanors of its citizenry...
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Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 February 2025
... in Spain and Italy, his nimble writerly contributions to transoceanic sanctity and martyrdom, and his diligence as an inspector-chronicler and recruiter. The authors’ most enticing explorations may pertain to Oré’s Symbolo catholico indiano (1598), the Rituale, seu manuale peruanum (1607...
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Peronist Consumer Politics and the Problem of Domesticating Markets in Argentina, 1943-1955
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (1): 111–149.
Published: 01 February 2007
... by the office provides an overview of antispeculation enforcement in 1948 and 1949. In these two years, the Office of Price Surveillance and the Federal Police conducted approximately 158,000 inspections. For metropolitan Buenos Aires, a crude average suggests that the inspectors would have visited the region’s...
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Paying for Progress: School Taxes, Municipal Government, and Liberal State Building, Cuetzalan and Huehuetla, Mexico, 1876–1930
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 649–680.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Regulations were enforced by state inspectors and district-level educational committees ( consejos de vigilancia ), but it was the municipal authorities who chose teachers (who would then be approved by the state government) and were entirely in charge of collecting and spending taxes. 30 The type...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 581–599.
Published: 01 November 1973
... ethnic groups, including the answers of native respondents to questions put by the Spanish inspector. Two of these have recently been published. 3 These data make it possible to obtain a far more precise idea of the internal organization of Andean society than could be derived from more traditional...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 65–77.
Published: 01 February 1963
... formally established the Department of San Blas. This military conclave was attended by officials of the inspector’s retinue, including his scribe and advisor, Juan Manual de Viniegras, the engineer and cosmographer, Miguel Costanzó, a pilot and mathematician named Antonio Faveau y Quesada, and important...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 339–376.
Published: 01 August 1995
... inspectors incurred costs of foraging as well as purchase. 18 Imports of drugs and equipment were held up in the customs houses by congestion or on stranded ships as the water level fell on the Río Magdalena. Although a coefficient of safety was established to assure security supply, this precaution...
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Roberto Cruz en la Revolución Mexicana
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 554.
Published: 01 August 1978
... as General Inspector of Police in Mexico City and Chief of Military Operations in the state of Michoacán, until his falling out with President Portes Gil and Jefe Máximo Calles in 1929. His unsuccessful rebellion from the state of Sinaloa led to a six-year exile in the United States. After Lázaro Cárdenas...
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Litigation as Ethnography in Sixteenth-Century Peru: Polo de Ondegardo and the Mitimaes
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 February 2008
... who had paid it to a local curaca should now give it to the local encomendero. 59 This distinction solved one administrative problem but created another: how to tell them apart. In his first census and inspection ( visita ) of the encomiendas, in 1540, Pizarro ordered the inspectors ( visitadores...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
... in police operations. The city was further subdivided into 195 blocks (quarteirões, arbitrarily determined administrative units containing a minimum of 25 residences each), with a resident appointed as block inspector in each. As the “front line” of the civilian police structure, the block inspector...
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The Sale of Fiscal Offices and the Decline of Royal Authority in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1633—1700
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 1982
... intensified after 1633. In 1664, royal inspectors reported that officials serving in the tribunal of accounts were not capable of performing their duties. The inspectors found Andrés de Mieses, a contador mayor , incompetent. Other members who had purchased their posts, such as Joseph de Bolívar, seldom came...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 273–295.
Published: 01 May 1977
... in an erratic tour with the Companhia Paulista which lasted from 1899 to 1926. He began as a laborer at 4$300 a day but by 1917 had advanced only to the rank of assistant fitter at 5$900 a day. 45 As with Inspectors General and civil engineers, most skilled labor was at first foreign. These employees...
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Granada. Historia de un país islámico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1971
... society in Granada is superficial. Some statements regarding institutions are wrong. It is not true, for example, that there was no hisba jurisdiction in Granada; ibn al-Khatīb mentions a Malagan muhtasib (market inspector) in 1310. The transliteration of Arabic words is often capricious or inexact...
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