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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 575–617.
Published: 01 November 2004
... on November 12 and sent a regiment to quash the rebellion. At the forefront were Cusco’s Inca nobles, who rejected Túpac Amaru almost to a one. 3 To the south, the Indian nobility of the Titicaca basin also proved staunch foes of the rebellion. It was not for want of appeals from Túpac Amaru: as he marched...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 837–838.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Susan Elizabeth Ramírez Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750 – 1825 . By Garrett David T. . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 300 pp. Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 120.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Lyle McAlister The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780-1826 . By Ladd Doris M. . Austin , 1976 . University of Texas Press . Tables. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 316 . Paper. $5.95 . Cloth. $15.95 . Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 728–730.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Tyson Reeder The second part contains the book's most creative and original contributions. Analyzing Indian and black nobility in Brazil, Raminelli reveals the paradoxical relationship between the fluidity of the Brazilian nobility and prevailing notions of race in the Luso-Atlantic. In return...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 720–721.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Barbara Potthast-Jutkeit Precisely because of this development, however, Büschges’s reduction of the object of his study to the nobility—instead of the “notability”—will not convince all readers. The discussion of “race- calidad -estate” and “class” certainly remains open; and the more...
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Published: 01 November 1975
’ professions, but until 1881 it is consistent. If anything, the failure to include the professions of titled nobility slightly underrepresents the true number of professional judges in some years. More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 565–566.
Published: 01 November 1967
...George T. Smisor López Sarrelangue presents a carefully documented account of the privileges and obligations of the nobility and the continual conflicts with the Spanish authorities. She also describes the social and family life of the nobility class, and discusses the royal line...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 609.
Published: 01 August 1989
... University Press 1989 The members of the Brazilian nobility, as the author makes clear, were not a formal corporation, as were medievally derived European nobilities, but were an “officially selected elite” for one’s life only. During the empire (1822-89), 980 men and women were granted 1,278 titles...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 349–370.
Published: 01 August 1963
... disgruntled benemérito, “are today placed in the best and most prized positions.” 51 Mercantile and mining fortunes were recognized or perhaps it would be better to say exploited by the crown through the concession of titles of nobility. These were granted with increasing frequency in the latter half...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 152–154.
Published: 01 February 2002
... of the Mexican nobility between 1750 and 1850. The book is divided into three distinct, unequal, but related parts. The first, and shortest, section describes the history of the testament in European culture. The second provides a systematic consideration of the Mexican nobility until the mid-nineteenth century...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 342–344.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the Aztec nobility was largely sealed during the first century of Spanish presence. In his engaging and comprehensive Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800 , Professor Peter Villella takes the reader beyond this well-established narrative to examine the conditions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 1987
... . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 At the very end of his study of the merger of the urban oligarchy and traditional nobility in early modern Barcelona, James Amelang remarks that “the historical developments treated in this book are to a certain degree familiar to all students of the period...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 February 2005
... and lesser officials. Half the articles concern the unique (and uniquely well-documented) Inca nobility of colonial Cuzco. These expose both the larger continuity of Inca privilege and identity and the enormous changes in both over three centuries of Spanish rule. Kerstin Nowack draws attention...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1972
... bishoprics of Cuzco, Lima and Arequipa. The situation was equally favorable for creoles in the military. During the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) the creole nobility of Lima, by agreeing to outfit companies of militia in exchange for commissions, came to dominate that branch’s officer corps. 5 Moreover...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (4): 753–755.
Published: 01 November 1978
... in this context means less “estate” than “status group” (Weber’s Stand) . Thus the Brazilian nobility, whose ultimate source of prestige is land tenure and old wealth, represents status, as defined by concepts of honor and tradition, while the bourgeoisie represents class, based on economic position...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 162–164.
Published: 01 February 1974
... was that of acknowledging honor without conferring nobility wholesale upon merchants and craftsmen. The result was the expansion of a series of urban patriciates with aristocratic trappings and membership which often overlapped the formal noble/non-noble categories. The government’s achievement here was a blurring...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 120–122.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., in that men often married some women of lower ranks, whose children then became part of the noble class; this prevented the formation of limited or isolated all-powerful and extremely wealthy dynastic families and instead turned the nobility into a large clan intimately connected with many other clans...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 748–750.
Published: 01 November 2012
... racial intermixture required an institutional and social recalibration of the meaning of purity and nobility. Churchmen and jurists recognized that these flaws not only enabled candidates to conceal their ancestral stains, but the spirit of the process itself could be undermined by attempts to sully...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 2005
... in Act IV, and examines the formation of a new nobility from old elites in Act V. Malerba focuses on monuments and artifacts, scenes of everyday life and public spectacles as rendered by artists of the time, official reports and panegyric literature, and accounts by private observers. Scholars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 November 2011
... service in town government be interpreted as proof of blood purity, a quality bequeathed to his son Miguel Vicente upon birth. “In [my son] is found purity and limpieza de sangre,” he argued, “that of nobility acquired through the obtaining and administering of honorable employment.” The exercise...