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Hispanic American Historical Review (1955) 35 (4): 550.
Published: 01 November 1955
...E. V. Niemeyer, Jr. Diccionario miskito-español, español-miskito. Obra dedicada al proyecto civilizador de enseñar el castellano a la raza de indígenas que vive más allá del rio Negro en La Mosquitia, Honduras . By Heath C. R. and Marx W. G. . Tegucigalpa , 1953 . Imprenta...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 1994
...William M. Leogrande Ráfaga: The Life Story of a Nicaraguan Miskito Comandante . By Reyes Reynaldo and Wilson J. K. . Edited by Sloan Tod . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1992 . Map. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxxii , 192 pp. Cloth . $27.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 1972
...R. N. A. The volume poses a number of interesting cultural questions; historians will find it goes far in filling a void in the Central American historico-cultural landscape. The Miskito are not a clear-cut cultural derivative of any currently identifiable indigenous social unit. While...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 734–735.
Published: 01 November 2010
... With stunning detail and attention to its significance, Claudia García presents the construction and reconstruction of citizenship of the Miskitu group, also known as Miskito or Misquito, of the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The author’s principal theme is the social construction of Miskito...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 1995
... population is inextricably linked to that of the indigenous Miskito. It is also an essential part of the history of national integration in Nicaragua. An international dimension includes British buccaneering, commerce, and settlement; Protestant missionaries; ties to Jamaica through immigration...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 February 2017
... are usually called Mosquito in contemporary sources (with numerous variants); the designation Miskitu (or Miskito ) is a modern one. 2. Exquemelin, Die Americaensche , 150. The German translation of 1679 was quite faithful to the original, but the Spanish translation, Exquemelin, Piratas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 381–419.
Published: 01 August 2014
... groups. That frontier continually shifted and frequently witnessed violence. British-Miskito forces had attacked Yucatan at least three times in the dozen years leading up to 1729, reaching as far as Chunhuhub (see figures 1 and 2 ); 16 but in that year, largely in response to these invasions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 1990
..., and the paper reviewing the distinct role of the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 May 1986
... and their impact on national life and politics, as well as on the government of the United States, add a valuable dimension to the diplomatic story that we already know. A well-developed theme throughout the book is the anti-“Hispanic” hostility of the Shore’s people: the Miskitos, other Indian tribes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 230–231.
Published: 01 May 1964
... a conservation law was passed as early as 1620, the Cayman Islanders and the inhabitants of the Miskito Coast ultimately played the major role in catching the green turtle. Introduced to the gourmets of London before 1753, through turtles brought from Ascension Island and elsewhere, by the nineteenth century...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 477–479.
Published: 01 August 1995
... for the country’s Miskito Indian minority. This essay, like the other contributions, identifies issues facing policymakers at the dawn of the 1990s and raises a host of questions for researchers to pursue. In their conclusion, Morales and Torres raise the larger issue of the need for a new development paradigm...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 803–804.
Published: 01 November 1996
.... The women speak of the problems that arose as they attempted to build a revolutionary government and adjust to the changes in the power structure after the exit of Somoza. One headed the nation’s police; another took charge of its medical program; a Miskito physician turned legislator and factory worker...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 619–647.
Published: 01 November 2019
... , 62; Naylor, Penny Ante Imperialism , 55. For examples of works highlighting Mosquito agency and independence, see Olien, “Miskito Kings”; Offen, “Creating Mosquitia”; Williams, “Living between Empires.” For examples of works emphasizing Mosquito dependence on firearms, see Gabbert, “‘God Save...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 545–546.
Published: 01 August 2008
... by engaging in a survey of Nicaraguan Protestantism from the first European contact with the Miskitos in the sixteenth century to evangelization campaigns by Pentecostal groups in the 1970s. Smith also analyzes the relationship between Somoza and Protestants to establish a necessary baseline against which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (3): 584–585.
Published: 01 August 2007
... the Araucanians and Apaches but brings understudied groups such as the Seris of Sonora or the Miskitos of Nicaragua into the mix as well. The result is a sweeping synthesis on a hemispheric scale. David Weber spent the first three decades of his career transforming himself into the master synthesizer...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 113–136.
Published: 01 February 2000
... my own. 1 Troy S. Floyd, The Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Mosquitia (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1967), 18, 19, 38, 56; Mary W. Helms, “Miskito Slaving and Culture Contact: Ethnicity and Opportunity in an Expanding Population,” Journal of Anthropological Research 39 (1983): 181...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 339–342.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Miskitos Nicaragua has been an ethnically homogenous society since the end of the nineteenth century (p. 13). In their effort to theorize national history and promote a revolutionary nationalism, Sandinista intellectuals developed a class-based version of this myth, arguing that with the proletarianization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 May 2012
... activities at this time, and the mission might have hoped that the reserve was an entity with a future. What else could students learn by comparing this map with that of Higley? There are now 18 mission stations, 7 more than five years earlier, and most of them among Miskito Indian villages to the north...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 469–498.
Published: 01 August 2002
... in the Americas , ed. Ann M. Pescatello (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972). Helms analyzes travelers’ perception of Miskitos from Nicaragua and Honduras both as “Indians” and “blacks” since colonial times. Focusing on this border region where Spaniards, Britons, natives, African slaves and freedmen met...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 3–51.
Published: 01 February 2003
... the high level of productivity of the island—estimates a perperson requirement of 0.2–0.5 hectares under cultivation for the Caribbean region and its adjacent areas. 13 Nietschmann, in his study of the Nicaraguan Miskito Coast—with similar climate, cultivation techniques and same crops— indicates about...
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