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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 535–537.
Published: 01 August 2014
...J. T. Way War by Other Means brilliantly links past and present through studies of biopolitics, everyday life, and lived hypermodernity in a land wracked by violence. Rich, nuanced, detailed, and full of multiple voices — many of them Guatemalan — it is indispensable to students and experts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 487–489.
Published: 01 August 1978
... of History), the book includes essays written between 1924 and 1967, though most appeared after 1940. Those relating to historical themes and interpretations will be of most interest to the readers of this journal. Included are “The Meaning of Spanish Civilization,” “The Problem of the Renaissance in Spain...
View articletitled, Américo Castro and the <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span> of Spanish Civilization An Idea of History: Selected Essays of Américo Castro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 342.
Published: 01 May 1972
...M. M. The Formal Expression of Meaning in Juan Carlos Onetti’s Narrative Art . By Jones Yvonne Pereer . Preface by Diez Luis A. . Cuernavaca, México , 1971 . Centro Intercultural de Documentación . Cuaderno, 59 . Bibliography . Pp. 153 . Paper. Copyright 1972 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Carmen Ramos Escandón The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City . By Gutmann Matthew C. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 330 pp. Paper, $16.95 . 2000 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 174–175.
Published: 01 February 1973
...L.A. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning of Migration to the Mainland . By Fitzpatrick Joseph P. . Foreword by Gordon Melton M. . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , 1971 . Prentice-Hall . Tables. Figures. Index . Pp. xvi , 192 . Cloth. $6.95 . Paper. $3.50 . Copyright 1973...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 346–348.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Paulina L. Alberto Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil . By Jessica Lynn Graham . Oakland : University of California Press , 2019 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii, 365 pp. Paper, $39.95...
View articletitled, Shifting the <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span> of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 234–236.
Published: 01 May 1962
... after his voyage in the Portuguese service along Brazil and Argentina to a point 47° S, the important thing was not the new land mass but the renunciation of the old idea of ecumene and orbis terrarum . What followed was the “invention” of America, for O’Gorman takes the Latin invenire as meaning...
View articletitled, The Invention of America. An Inquiry into the Historical Nature of the New World and the <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span> of its History
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 580–581.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Richard N. Adams Inverse Images: The Meaning of Culture, Ethnicity, and Family in Postcolonial Guatemala . By Hawkins John . Foreword by Nash Manning . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1984 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography...
View articletitled, Inverse Images: The <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span> of Culture, Ethnicity, and Family in Postcolonial Guatemala
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 August 1988
... transformation into a mere “rural work force.” The larger purpose of the essay is to suggest ways of studying the meaning of freedom. A comparative approach to emancipation has certain obvious advantages for the highlighting of crucial differences and the testing of hypotheses. Perhaps less obvious...
View articletitled, Exploring the <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span> of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 356.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Laura Randall Living Within Our Means: An Examination of the Argentine Economic Crisis . By Ferrer Aldo . Boulder : Westview Publications , 1986 . Tables . Pp. x , 98 . Paper. $15.00 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 In Living Within Our Means , Aldo...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 643–673.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in dead newborn babies. 6 Luisa’s case, however, deviates to some degree from this profile. Her daughter was about nine months old when she was killed, which means that the child lived with her mother for nearly a year and that everyone in the community was already aware that Luisa was a single mother...
View articletitled, History and the Contours of <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span>: The Abjection of Luisa Nevárez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 381–382.
Published: 01 May 2009
...James N. Green A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960 – 1980 . By Lesser Jeffrey . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxx , 219 pp. Cloth , $79.95...
View articletitled, A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the <span class="search-highlight">Meanings</span> of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 August 2009
...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism . By Go Julian . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi...
View articletitled, American Empire and the Politics of <span class="search-highlight">Meaning</span>: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 689–690.
Published: 01 November 2008
... help. Boone’s aim in Cycles of Time and Meaning is to provide us with an informed overview of the divinatory manuscripts, show how we should go about reading them, and review the interpretations that have been offered. This volume can be used as a companion to her earlier work Stories in Red...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 355–356.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Thomas D. Rogers This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil . By Wolford Wendy . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 281 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Cloth , $84.95 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 269–302.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of the merchant with a wide variety of commercial and political contacts, it argues that honor symbolized the value and reliability of exchange partners among all elite groups, but differences in the nature of exchanges led to different means of gauging honor. Landowners involved mainly in local face-to-face...
View articletitled, Words Spoken and Written: Divergent <span class="search-highlight">Meanings</span> of Honor among Elites in Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande Do Sul
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 623–652.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... The perspectives of criminologists discussed in the latter part of this article shed more light on the larger meanings of El Chalequero than those offered by the police or judiciary. Science was involved in the investigation of Jack the Ripper’s identity. In Mex-ico, criminologists and psychiatrists were summoned...
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View articletitled, “El Chalequero” or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The <span class="search-highlight">Meanings</span> of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 721–723.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 1960s. In his study of the myriad cultural means through which nineteenth-century Cubans crafted an interior history of distinction and aspiration that propelled them to act repeatedly (and against all odds) for nationhood, Pérez explores the expressions of writers, intellectuals, and private citizens...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 300–302.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Tamara L. Bray Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World . Edited by Costin Cathy Lynne . Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2016 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 91–122.
Published: 01 February 2019
... to democracy, emerging timidly in 1981 as the military grew weaker but remained in power and gaining momentum between 1983 and 1987. Destapar means to take the lid off, uncover, expose, and the destape was, in fact, an avalanche of sexual images and narratives. This article considers the censorship...
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