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Hispanic American Historical Review (1948) 28 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 February 1948
...Paul Radin Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec . By Covarrubias Miguel . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . Pp. xxviii , 427 , viii . Eight plates in color, 93 plates in black and white, and numerous line drawings . $7.50 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 23–60.
Published: 01 February 1989
..., a commodity esteemed to this day by isthmus Zapotec women, despite the availability of less expensive, commercial substitutes. 79 Huave specialization in these products enabled them to procure otherwise scarce agricultural resources—corn, beans, squash, and other foods, as well as cotton for cloth—through...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1961) 41 (4): 533–554.
Published: 01 November 1961
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1959) 39 (4): 676.
Published: 01 November 1959
...David M. Pletcher Straddling the Isthmus of Tehuantepec . By Glick Edward B. . Foreword by Wilgus A. Curtis . Gainesville , 1959 . University of Florida Press . Latin American Monograph, 6 . Table. Bibliography . Pp. v , 48 . Paper. Copyright 1959 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1940) 20 (4): 599–602.
Published: 01 November 1940
...Mary Wilhelmine Williams Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 Cádiz to Cathay: The Story of the Long Struggle for a Waterway Across the American Isthmus . By DuVal Miles P. Jr. [ Stanford Books in World Politics .] ( Stanford University : Stanford University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Rebecca Horn Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500 – 1750 . By Zeitlin Judith Francis . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix , 323...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 February 1990
...David McCreery Leaving aside a certain awkwardness born of the forced marriage of solidarity moral outrage and an academic “balance,” there are two obvious difficulties with Power in the Isthmus . One is a writing style given to long and complex sentences from which no noun or verb escapes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 409–410.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Margaret E. Crahan The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987–1993 . By Dunkerley James . London : Verso , 1994 . Tables. Appendixes. Notes . xiii , 150 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Paper , $16.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 345–347.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Robin E. Zenger Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone . By Donoghue Michael E. . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 349 pp. Paper...
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Published: 01 February 1989
FIGURE 1: The Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 177–178.
Published: 01 February 2019
.... Paper . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Leticia Reina presents a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which she describes as a region that has greatly benefited from its geographical location in southern Oaxaca. The author convincingly portrays...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 399–429.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of the slaves (2,528) were sold before the rest (4,961) were forced to continue to the Isthmus of Panama. 87 Portobelo immediately benefited from Grillo and Lomellino's control of the official flow of slaves to Spanish America. Initially, their company was entitled to unload slaves in Cartagena...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 85–108.
Published: 01 February 1990
... The New York Times, Sept. 23, 1856, p. 2. 52 Quoted in Octavio Méndez Pereira, Justo Arosemena: Obra premiada en el concurso del centenario (Panama City, 1970), 201. 53 Gardner quoted in Caughey, “A Yankee Trader,” 415-418. 54 Quoted in Jones, “Across the Isthmus,” 547. 55 Ibid...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 691–713.
Published: 01 November 1989
... America (Philadelphia, 1976). 29 Panama City, 1975. She is also the author of “Las culturas indígenas panameñas en el momento de la conquista,” Hombre y Cultura, 3 (1977), 69-96. 30 Phytogeographic History of the Isthmus of Panama during the Past 12,000 Years (A History of Vegetation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 269–293.
Published: 01 May 1980
.... The concerns of the government set up after the rebellion in November 1840 will furnish testimony to the special economic problems of the Isthmus for which such solutions as free trade or the improvement of public roads had a singular importance. Nevertheless, there are several arguments which tend...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 393–426.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... 24 Juana Cata’s trade grew rapidly and she sold various types of merchandise in her store, including imported wines, crystal, and glassware. In time, she began to specialize and became a major importer of new and popular textiles to the towns of the isthmus. She brought in textiles from various...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (1): 28–52.
Published: 01 February 1966
... has been Panama’s dissatisfaction with the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty which granted to the United States “the use, occupation, and control ” of a zone of land for “the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection” of a canal across the Panamanian isthmus. While the subsequent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 312.
Published: 01 May 1967
... of history and likes his heroes or villains well defined David Howarth, a British correspondent and author of several books, has written a most readable story of the Isthmus of Panama. His account ranges from early Spanish explorations to some provocative speculation concerning a new canal and nuclear...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 541–542.
Published: 01 August 1979
... and several incidents with international overtones, little about nineteenth-century Panama has attracted the attention of historians writing in English. In fact, even in Spanish there is no adequate survey of the Isthmus between the end of Spanish rule (1821) and the separation from Colombia (1903...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 479.
Published: 01 August 1980
... The subtitle of this book accurately describes its scope. It is an “Estudio sobre la población y los modos de organización de las economías, las sociedades y los espacios geográficos” of Panama, applying the latest techniques developed in France. The Isthmus has been since the coming of the Europeans a route...