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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Western fiscal systems into Venezuela resulted in a circuitous, contingent transition, producing state structures that combined patrimonial and legal-rational practices and that thus may be characterized as neopatrimonial. The Gómez regime introduced direct administration of the liquor tax into certain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 1994
...:. Mining Routes in Central Peru, 1820-1860 Again according to Wilson’s figures, 120,000 arrobas of sugarcane liquor in volume amount to about 6.5 million marcs, 20 times more than the amount of silver metal extracted from Cerro de Pasco in those years. In terms of prices, that of sugarcane liquor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 507–508.
Published: 01 August 1968
...Henry Dobyns Iglesias wrote a longer paragraph about “San Andrés Sayultepeque” which produced brown sugar, and where “every house” made two bottles of maize liquor daily, “which is why the majority abuses liquor.” In 1952 the Mexican Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística published Sayula...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 239–276.
Published: 01 May 2004
... celebrations. Celebrations for San Gerónimo’s patron saint, for Christmas Eve, for New Year’s Eve, and for Easter Sunday are all marked by elaborate observances complete with costly fireworks. The village, renowned for its production of sugar and high quality moonshine and liquors, is also famed for the music...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 643–671.
Published: 01 November 1980
... considerations. Several pulquerías were not always in operation, and during the 1790s, the number fell below the legal limit. 18 While the number of pulquerías remained relatively stable, the number of vinaterías rose dramatically. Reflecting the increased consumption of hard liquor after the legalization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 560.
Published: 01 August 1978
... are of uneven quality and different emphasis. Their usefulness gives little beyond that of serving as a handy ready reference for locating names, dates, battles, constitutions, and even the local names for exotic plants, native liquors, and the like. Listings of presidential administrations with dates and lists...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 652.
Published: 01 November 1964
... for eight rehearsals, and spends approximately $5 for liquor, incense, and other offerings to insure a successful performance. The music, as transcribed by Jacinto Amezquita in March, 1957, consists of 21 sones in A flat major for chirimía (shawm) and drum. European influence betrays itself throughout...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., prostitution became labeled as work rather than deviance. The government relied on the port for income and was reluctant to interfere in the daily activities of residents. Because the government derived so much income from the sale of alcohol in the port due to the state liquor monopoly, it was leery...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1996
... French methods of dealing with non-Christian natives, they kept on giving brandy to Caddos who were apparently accustomed to it. Yet even though Bernardo de Gálvez, former governor of Spanish Louisiana and viceroy of New Spain in 1786, advocated liquor to control tribes throughout the provincias...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 November 1999
... their homes but many lost their livelihoods when the little shops and workshops where they had manufactured sweets, roasted nuts and coffee beans, repaired pots and pans, and sold liquor, the source of their only opportunities for economic betterment, were torn down as well. Outtes’s book contains...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 February 1975
... and City Council, 1783-1812,” should prove of considerable interest and provide some worthwhile comparative materials for anyone interested in municipal government under Spanish rule. Jack D. L. Holmes’s study of “Spanish Regulation of Taverns and the Liquor Trade in the Mississippi Valley” is perhaps...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 553–554.
Published: 01 August 2010
... characterization of the massacre of the Spanish and creole defenders of the Alhóndiga as “an impromptu religious fiesta . . . of blood, fire, liquor and plunder” (p. 80). His supple exposition of the conflict between Hidalgo’s successors, Ignacio López Rayón (who saw the movement as one to restore Ferdinand VII...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 440–441.
Published: 01 May 2003
... is on exports from Chile, not the United States, which get only a cursory mention (doubtless because they tell little in particular about the import-export trade). Mentioned in cargoes from the United States are flour, shoes, books, medicines, furniture, liquors, notions, and so on, which might have come from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 721–723.
Published: 01 November 2020
... clerics to the Americas (pp. 42–43). Once in the New World, clerics engaged in contraband trade in slaves, liquor, and tobacco. Religious orders in the Canary Islands, too, directly benefited from their brethren in the Americas. Traveling clerics collected alms, which they remitted (minus their expenses...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (4): 557–558.
Published: 01 November 1946
... of British settlement in Australia, whalers, sealers, and traders from the United States found their way to Sydney and the Australian coast. These waters were attractive to whalers and sealers, and while commerce was limited largely to the importation of provisions and liquor, its character illustrates...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 771–772.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and is known as aguardiente in Spanish). The monopoly sold posh laced with toxic chemicals at outlandish prices. When local communities that relied on the liquor for a host of ritual and mundane uses responded by distilling their own brew, the monopoly mobilized its patrons in local government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 2007
... by the upper classes, which benefited from selling liquor to the poor. The beauty of this book is that it charts a path seamlessly through biographies, novels, plays, social and labor histories, and intellectual history to analyze the foundational role of Cuban anarchism in “a war between competing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 524–537.
Published: 01 August 1970
... person exceeding 5,000 pesos and urban property exceeding 6,000 pesos. No mining or smelting companies, no liquor stores or cantinas were eligible for tax relief. 8 Blatantly favorable to the middle-class businessman and small farmer, the decree shifted the financial burden of government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... Gunder’s life had cinematic sweep. Born Andrew Frank in 1929 Berlin, the son of a leftist Jewish intellectual who chose exile when Hitler came to power, he was raised abroad in Switzerland and the United States. Gunder worked from adolescence as a liquor store clerk and beachcomber and later supported...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (4): 529–553.
Published: 01 November 1992
... needed a regular supply of punctual laborers; they believed regulation would foster reliable work habits. 35 Taking office in 1904, Governor Enrique Creel continued the campaign begun by Terrazas. In mid-1906, at his insistence, Chihuahua legislators passed a new law to curb intoxicating liquors...