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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 512–514.
Published: 01 August 2014
... profitability, productivity levels, and international competitiveness than the Mexican Revolution. These reached their highest levels, as for other textile companies, between 1902–1913. The following four years of civil war, however, did markedly disrupt the railway and financial systems, forcing Orizaba...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 519–546.
Published: 01 August 1985
... in the nineteenth century. This article will look at credit conditions in Orizaba and Córdoba in the state of Veracruz—the volume of transactions, the properties used to secure repayment, the purposes of loans and debts, the sources of credit, and repayment behavior—in order to assess conditions of credit...
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Published: 01 August 1985
FIGURE 3: Delay in Payment-Orizaba and Córdoba Loans Source: ANO, ANC Protocolos 1840-1871, excluding urban property sales. Limited to contracts of known term and length. More
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Published: 01 August 1985
FIGURE 4: Delay in Payment-Orizaba Agricultural Mortgages Source: RPPO, Libro de censos y hipotecas , 1822-1868. Limited to contracts of known term and length secured by agricultural property. More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 February 1974
... was presented to the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, 1970. Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 In may of 1910 Francisco Madero was making one last swing in his quixotic challenge to the aging dictator, Porfirio Díaz. Stopping in Orizaba, Veracruz, on Sunday, May 22, he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 760–761.
Published: 01 November 2003
...) and the movements of renters and colonos in the port of Veracruz and the textile center of Orizaba. Though aspects of this story are already well documented (most recently in Andrew Wood’s fascinating account of the Veracruz renters’ strike and Bernardo García’s work on Orizaba), the merit in Behrens’s study...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 593–595.
Published: 01 August 2006
... Jalapa and Perote to Mexico City, while the other did the same for Córdoba and Orizaba. Then the author surveys the history of the camino real extension from Mexico City to Toluca. Castleman soundly observes the increased importance of Mexico’s highway system to viceregal officials by the mid–eighteenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 778–779.
Published: 01 November 1996
... originally published between 1987 and 1992. They are part and parcel of the author’s longstanding and seminal contribution to the history of colonial Mexico. Here in particular, his goal is to document the appropriation of Indian land in the valley of Orizaba by the creole nobility and higher colonial...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 299.
Published: 01 May 1978
... traces the origin of today’s road system between central highland Mexico and coastal Veracruz to the sixteenth century when the Spanish established two rival routes through the Sierra Madre Oriental at Jalapa and Orizaba. The European conquerors ignored prehispanic transport patterns in order to create...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 May 1993
... encounters with pirates encouraged entrepreneurs to move the center of tobacco cultivation away from the coast and inland to Orizaba and Cordoba, where many planters established thriving haciendas. In major cities the state monopoly opened enormous factories modeled after the famous one in Seville. Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 281–282.
Published: 01 May 1967
... . The initiation of the series with a volume on the textile industry seems a happy choice. Veracruz was a cotton-growing area of some significance in late colonial times, and certain of its cities, especially Orizaba, later became major cotton textile centers. The industries erected there in the early 1840s during...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 830–832.
Published: 01 November 2006
... on Guadalajara, the volume is primordially about three urban centers of eastern New Spain — Orizaba (one article), Xalapa (three), and Puebla (four). This eastern “bias,” however, is in fact the book’s major strength, even if Córdoba (Orizaba’s twin town) receives no attention, for the cities studied were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 183–195.
Published: 01 May 1965
... this contemptible tax are incalculable. If [Miguel] Moreno and [Juan] Moctezuma in Orizaba and Córdoba had burned more than the 40,000 bales of tobacco they destroyed, and if they had rendered it useless to the people of those towns, it would have thrown the tyrant into a panic, and perhaps would have caused him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 675–705.
Published: 01 November 1984
... José María Tornel, apoderado de las diputaciones de tabaco de las ciudades de Jalapa y Orizaba, pidiendo la reprobación del acuerdo sobre la amortización de la moneda del cobre por medio del estanco en aquel ramo (Mexico City, 1841), p. 8; Empresa, Memoria , p. 15; Común de Cosecheros de Orizaba...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 382–386.
Published: 01 May 1988
... from the National Archives, Defense Archives, Foreign Ministry Archives, and Carranza Archives in Mexico City as well as the valuable municipal and notarial archives of the cities of Veracruz, Jalapa, Orizaba, and Córdoba to weave together a detailed accounting of the political and social struggles...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 142–143.
Published: 01 February 1994
.... The book benefits greatly from the depth of documentation substantiating its arguments. Deans-Smith mined thoroughly the major archives in Mexico and Spain, and her section on tobacco cultivation draws heavily from the notarial archives of Orizaba. This study complements—and generally substantiates...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 May 1977
... best passage is that on Carranza’s Labor Department director personally organizing Orizaba mill workers into agrupaciones de resistencia , which he could legally regulate more easily than sindicatos . Significantly, his campaign was in vain; the workers soon dissolved the agrupaciones...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 419–420.
Published: 01 August 1992
... In this monograph, Patrick J. Carroll wants to combine the study of African slaves and their descendants over time with that of regional development in central Veracruz from 1570 to 1830. His focus is on three districts (Jalapa, Córdoba, and Orizaba), and his aim is to uncover external as well as internal factors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (3): 621–622.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... This is demonstrated in the lives of Diego de Anzures and the conde de Orizaba. To this we can contrast the life of the family members of Luis Eraso and of the famous poet Gutierre de Cetina. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the studies pick up the topic of families or specific regional groups that came from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with the surrounding terrain and vegetation. Chapters 8 through 11 describe the railroad trip from Vera Cruz to Mexico City through Córdoba, Orizaba, Puebla, and Cholula. Again, the physical features of each are painted in detail, and Townsend proves to be an astute observer of custom and behavior as well. She...