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The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 705–706.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jeffrey Bortz The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931 . By Suarez-Potts William J. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 348 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...
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We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 516–518.
Published: 01 August 2024
... studies more firmly anchored in local archives and localized issues, about which the book cannot reveal much. It was often local courts that imbued the words in these decrees with concrete meanings. Indeed, that the king, with his heavily policed image as supreme legislator, is nevertheless just the final...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1950) 30 (4): 517.
Published: 01 November 1950
...C. C. G. International Legislation, a Collection of the Texts of Multipartite International Instruments of General Interest . Vol. VIII , 1938-1941 . Edited by Hudson Manley O. with the collaboration of Sohn Louis B. . ( Washington : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 610–611.
Published: 01 November 1963
...Timothy Fox Harding First Brazilian Legislation Relating to Rural Labor Unions. A Sociological Study . By Freitas Marcondes J. V. . Gainesville , 1962 . University of Florida Press . The Latin American Monograph Series. No. 20 . Charts. Bibliography . Pp. 63 . Paper. Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 542–543.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Robert H. Davis Andrés Bello: Philosopher, Poet, Philologist, Educator, Legislator, Statesman . By Caldera Rafael . Translated by Street John . Foreword by Grases Pedro . London , 1977 . George Allen and Unwin . Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography . Pp. 165...
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A Thousand Invisible Architects: Vassals, the Petition and Response System, and the Creation of Spanish Imperial Caste Legislation
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 377–406.
Published: 01 August 2018
... prudent action is to postpone a definitive judgment” on the extent of uso y costumbre: ibid., 171. I would add that no scholar suggests a predominant role for uso y costumbre within crown legislation. 48. There are some exceptions. See, for instance, an undated petition by the “yndios del Piru...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 330–331.
Published: 01 May 1996
... about fisheries. The area treated in this book comprises the islands and the South and Central American coasts, excluding the United States and Mexico for reasons of space. The book examines the legislation produced between the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Convention of 1982 and 1993, when a new...
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Indian Legislation in Peru
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1920) 3 (4): 509–534.
Published: 01 November 1920
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Latin America and the Development of the Law of the Sea: Regional Documents and National Legislation
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Michael A. Morris Latin America and the Development of the Law of the Sea: Regional Documents and National Legislation . Vol. I . By Szekely Alberto . Dobbs Ferry, New York , 1976 . Oceana Publications, Inc . Bibliography . Pp. 361 . Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 831.
Published: 01 November 1970
...D. M. P. Mining and Petroleum Legislation in Latin America . 2nd ed. Washington , 1969 . Pan American Union, General Secretariat, Organization of American States . Pp. xiii , 329 . Paper, $5.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Like the Datos básicos de...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1949) 29 (3): 397–398.
Published: 01 August 1949
...Arthur P. Whitaker Legislatión para la defensa política en las repúblicas americanas . [ Comité Consultivo de Emergencia para la Defensa Política .] ( Montevideo : Talleres Gráficos Milton Reyes y Cía., S. A. , 1947 . 2 vols. Pp. 819 ; 638 . Paper.) Copyright 1949 by Duke University...
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Grain Legislation in Colonial Mexico, 1575-1585
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1947) 27 (4): 647–660.
Published: 01 November 1947
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Making the Immoral Moral: Consensual Unions and Birth Status in Cuban Law and Everyday Practice, 1940–1958
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 627–659.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Sarah R. Arvey Abstract This article explores the 1940 Cuban Constituent Assembly debates about consensual unions and birth status as legislators created a new legal process called equiparación de matrimonio civil that would grant to citizens in consensual unions the same rights and benefits...
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Liberal Justice: Judicial Reform in Venezuela’s Courts, 1786–1850
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 489–522.
Published: 01 August 2010
... violence but then quickly rebounded. Second, did the post-independence judicial system effectively integrate liberal legislative reforms into courtroom standards and practices? The study shows that, while republican court reform failed in some measures, it also succeeded in the following four areas...
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The Creation of a Social Problem: Youth Culture, Drugs, and Politics in Cold War Argentina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 37–69.
Published: 01 February 2015
... drug usage in the interwar period, explored here, had defined the medical contours of toxicomanía (addiction). But as the 1970s progressed, new legislation framed the drug problem as one of national security, proscribing illicit drug distribution, penalizing consumers, and authorizing federal police...
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“Land to the Original Owners”: Rethinking the Indigenous Politics of the Bolivian Agrarian Reform
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 259–296.
Published: 01 May 2017
... in reshaping the government agrarian agenda but also used the new legislation to regain lands lost to hacienda landlords since the late nineteenth century. Furthermore, Urquidi argued that Indians would not assimilate the “modern mechanisms of farming” pursued by the small and medium-sized landholders who...
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“The Age of Malice”: Estupro , Consent, and the Foundations of Victim Blaming in the Criminal Courts of Buenos Aires, 1853–1878
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 615–645.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Julia Ogden Abstract This article examines the judicial treatment of pubescent, female victims of sexual assault in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1853 and 1878, dates that span the decades between the national constitution and the adoption by Buenos Aires Province of new penal legislation...
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The “Ancient Constitution” after Independence (1808–1852)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 August 2010
... emerging after independence resorted to a hybrid and ambiguous set of rules and principles, some of them of colonial origin. Ancient statutes such as the Leyes de Indias or the more recent Real Ordenanza de Intendentes coexisted with the new legislation that intended to establish representative regimes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 637–650.
Published: 01 November 1981
... of the Indians; Book V, title VII, par. II. Book III, title VII, contains the legislation on the life and habits of clerics. 27 The final sentence of the Directorio’s summary of the decree reads “being an Indian or mestizo or descendant of Moors or Jews in the first degree.” The words “an Indian...
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Entre a mão e os anéis: A Lei dos Sexagenários e os caminhos da abolição no Brasil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., as the Saraiva debates began, Brazil experienced an export crisis and precarious imperial finances. She does not explain the general structure of the legislative process or the political orientations and regional constituencies of many of the deputies discussed. Finally, Mendonça leaves the reader...
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