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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Don M. Coerver Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake . By Poniatowska Elena . Translated by De Schmidt Aurora Camacho and Schmidt Arthur . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1995 . Photographs. Map. Glossary. Index . xxix , 327 pp. Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 307–315.
Published: 01 May 1998
... forces. No, they had no greater desire than to see the triumph of the Constitution and of liberty. They desired to aid the GREAT REPUBLICAN whom they believed to be the only one capable of saving Peru from the ruins in which it was left as a result of the war with Chile. They asked nothing and desired...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 387–414.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Immersed in the wreckage of the past, an old man surveyed the ruins and imagined a future that looked nothing like the world outside his doors. This article analyzes Espinosa's prophecy and explores the methodological challenges of studying historical subjects who are at odds with their earlier selves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 195–232.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that, to these actors in 1532 and 1533, nothing was inevitable. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The Sapa Inka, or peerless ruler, set out from the royal baths of Qonoq for Cajamarca on November 16, 1532. Atawallpa, the leader of the largest Indigenous empire in the Americas, traveled...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 786–787.
Published: 01 November 1986
... away like a ruined flower. My fame will be nothing, my renown here on earth will be nothing. There may be flowers, there may be songs, but what might happen to this heart of mine? Alas, it’s for nothing we’ve come to be born here on earth.. . . Earth is but a moment. Is the Place Unknown the same...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 413–414.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Niños, and there is nothing in the book on strategies for coping with El Niño rains in areas such as the Piura desert. Surely, El Niño has a global significance, with roots in Andean historical geography. There is nothing on fisheries or on guano. There are some good pages on Potosí...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 February 2000
... published work on the Atusparia Uprising, and I said so in the preface to my book, From Two Republics to One Divided . However, I was disappointed by Stein’s latest and in some ways extraordinary “Comment,” which carried the possibly ambivalent title “Next to Nothing: More on Pedro Pablo Atusparia” ( HAHR...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 682–683.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 2009 Columbus’s famed voyages are so over-researched that it easy to assume that nothing new could ever be said about them. And yet Nicolás Wey Gómez has managed the seemingly impossible task of not just adding a few new details but indeed opening vast new vistas on this subject. He accomplishes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 February 1970
... Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major (1944), an admiring account, but one which adopts the Magnaghi position. However, this is relatively unimportant. Nothing can detract from Vespucci’s real ability as an explorer and cartographer, a man who developed a system for computing exact longitude and who calculated...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 218.
Published: 01 May 1966
... the Incas, the Spanish conquerors, the legendary giants of the past, Polynesians, Jivano Indians, and whatever geographically is or may have been linked to the West Coast cultures of South America. The book claims to be a history of pre-Columbian Ecuador, but inasmuch as nothing is known of this history...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 604–606.
Published: 01 August 1996
... of the politics of that regime. Because one running theme is the totally subversive nature of the Communist Party, it is strange that Pinochet says nothing about that party’s role as a moderate element during the Allende years —its efforts to persuade Allende to be more cautious and to make compromises...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 602.
Published: 01 November 1963
... factor in population growth and natural increase a major one; and that the population explosion which characterizes eighteenth-century Spanish America was perhaps the most important single factor in bringing about the tremendous economic growth at the turn of the century. After all, nothing can...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 559–560.
Published: 01 August 1980
... of vignettes. This book is that and nothing more. Edmundo del Solar, uncle of the late Allendista cabinet member and Chilean ambassador in Washington, recalls, both impressionistically and poignantly, Orlando Letelier from his early days in Temuco, through his years of influence and power at the Inter...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 177.
Published: 01 February 1965
... to historians who would deal with the development of thought concerning agrarian reform or to those who would analyze the conflicting intellectual currents of Brazil’s attempting to emerge as a major world power. It tells us nothing of the past, however, except for a brief characterization of the fazendeiro...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 February 1968
... to needs of society in that country. There were important contributions from foreign scientists who came to Uruguay, but virtually nothing was achieved by means of cooperative efforts with scientists in foreign institutions. Ramasso’s history ends in 1931 with the publication of the first doctoral...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 217–231.
Published: 01 May 1962
... was taken up by the long boat—nearly exhausted. December 30, 1825. At St. Bartholomew—where we are likely to be 2 or 3 days. Bunch & Montoya have joined us again. They say there is nothing here—neither fowls, fish, eggs, or fruit—nothing but one bull . To all this I would have but little objection...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 795.
Published: 01 November 1981
... of Ernesto Guevara. The book is divided into four sections. Section one covers the period 1928-56 (78 pages), Che’s childhood and adolescence. Most of the material originated from interviews with Che’s father and friends. Although there is some new information, nothing unusual is presented. Section two deals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 524–525.
Published: 01 August 1974
..., this is a most disappointing book. It contains nothing about slavery, nothing about the process of emancipation in the American slave societies, and extremely little about the changing attitudes toward slavery and race either in Europe or overseas. Instead, it is a slightly polemical narrative of the efforts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 November 1963
.... Here is another book that is not bad and perhaps even useful, but which adds nothing new to expert knowledge. The book is a collection of eighteen papers read at the Conference on Tensions in Development in the Western Hemisphere held at the University of Bahia in August, 1962, and sponsored...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 138.
Published: 01 February 1971
..., indexes, and photographs of surviving hacienda buildings. The total is still far from a full record of Tlaxacalan land-holding. Smaller properties and properties held by ecclesiastics and Indians were exempted from the tax and are not included in the documentation. Little or nothing is provided—because...
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