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Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Maria Lais Pereira da Silva Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro . By McCann Bryan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 249 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright ©...
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Montcalm. The Marvelous Marquis
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 146.
Published: 01 February 1963
...John P. Desmarais Montcalm. The Marvelous Marquis . By Lewis Meriwether Liston . New York , 1961 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 178 . $3.50 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 With so many good biographies on the market it is unfortunate that so interesting...
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From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
... in sixteenth-century Europe. 1 Among the king’s diverse belongings were curiosities and marvelous objects that he had received from America. The Peruvian viceroy, don Francisco de Toledo, sent the king a variety of gifts during his time in office (1569 – 81), including stone idols, a 23-karat-gold llama...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1948) 28 (4): 594–596.
Published: 01 November 1948
...Mario Camarinha-da-Silva Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Literature . By Putnam Samuel . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1948 . Pp. xvi , 269 , xii . $4.00 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...
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Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Anne Hanley Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . By Cribelli Teresa . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth , $99.99 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...
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Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 702–703.
Published: 01 November 2021
... comparison of Alonso López de Hinojosos's Svmma, y recopilacion de chirvgia (Surgical compendium) and Juan de Cárdenas's Primera parte de los problemas y secretos marauillosos de las Indias (First part of problems and marvelous secrets of the Indies) analyzes the colonial paradox of anatomy...
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Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life in Mexico Before the Reforma
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 557–558.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Asunción Lavrin Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context . By Taylor William B. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Index. ix , 149 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life...
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Naturalia, mirabilia & monstrosa en los imperios ibéricos (siglos XV – XIX)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 516–517.
Published: 01 August 2008
... , 393 pp. Paper . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Can representations of curiosities, marvels, and monstrosities shed light on the history of the global early modern period? As new societies emerged in the wake of imperial expansion, new objects and categories of naturalia...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 316–317.
Published: 01 May 1997
... exposition of Venezuelan marvelous reality ( lo real maravilloso) is, indeed, the central feature of the first half of the book. According to Navarro, “the compositional component in Aguados work and, above all, the configuration of its discourse, not simply as a document but as a message from someone...
View articletitled, Configuración textual de la “Recopilación historial de Venezuela” de Pedro de Aguado Fundadores, primeros moradores, y familias coloniales de Mérida (1558-1810). Volume 3, Los primeros moradores (1560-1600)
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Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 555–556.
Published: 01 August 1980
... studies (Guerra y Sánchez, Ortiz), and vanguard ideologies and aesthetics (surrealism). In his “recharting” of Carpentier’s fiction, this critic delves into the problematics common to much of modern Latin American literature: the “marvelous real,” mythical synchronic time versus linear diachronic time...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 424–426.
Published: 01 August 1963
... pockets watering little flower-pots labeled “reform and freedom.” This is a marvelous, too marvelous condensation. It would have been strengthened had the basic documents from the Monroe Doctrine down to the Alliance for Progress been presented with less thesismaking emasculation so the uninformed...
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Passion Miracles and Indigenous Historical Memory in New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 607–638.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., and territorial experiences and show how such marvels acquired uniquely Mexican meanings. When the Franciscan Order arrived in New Spain just three years after the fall of Tenochtitlán to Hernán Cortés, its members brought their devotion to the Passion, believing that miracles of the cross represented...
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The Maya of Guatemala: Their Life and Dress
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 167.
Published: 01 February 1978
... of their customs, and her text is a sympathetic discussion of their daily lives and the increasing erosion of traditional values. Descriptions of the dress of selected villages and vignettes collected over the years are attractive complements to the marvelous paintings. Of most interest to art historians...
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Across South America: An Account of a Journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by Way of Potosí
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (3): 579.
Published: 01 August 1977
... and weak in the irrelevance of his opening chapters. To Bingham himself the greatest worth lay in the role this travel prompted Peru to play in his subsequent career. Even as the reader marvels at Bingham’s energy, he is left to wonder why the editor of the reprint series in which this appears fails...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 785.
Published: 01 November 1979
... The marvel of Margarita Giesecke’s slim Masas urbanas y rebelión en la historia is its extraordinary clarity. In it one finds clarity of purpose, of exposition, and certainly the argument of its conclusions rings clear as well. The purpose of this account is to “discover and analyze” the limeño masses...
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La victoria de Carranza
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 360.
Published: 01 May 1980
... of 1917. He achieved this despite the churlish and/or selfish opposition of Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa, the reactionaries, and United States authorities. A sovereign, proud, and “marvelous contemporary Mexico” is the legacy of Carranza’s admirable social reconstruction (p. 187). The book’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 772–773.
Published: 01 November 1979
... agreement with several other students of recent Peruvian history. His great contribution lies in the rigorous analysis of key issues, thus providing a much firmer base for future studies. He succeeds marvelously in blending theory with reality. Loose ends in his empirical evidence are not neatly trimmed...
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Técnicas lapidarias prehispánicas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 214.
Published: 01 February 1970
... experimentation in reproducing these marvelous objects that will throw light on some of these problems. ...
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La España del Siglo de Oro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 274–275.
Published: 01 May 1962
... relation do the politics and economics of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain have to its marvelous cultural flowering? Did religion motivate as well as shape its production? Why did it end? Moreover, though M. Piétri advances his thesis many times, he never examines the importance of religion...
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Batallas de la Revolución y sus corridos
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 February 1980
... in this book, although most have appeared elsewhere in print, many in more complete form. The corridos are marvelous; they stir the emotion. They can also provide historical evidence, but the author unfortunately does not attempt to make the connection. ...
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