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El siglo de los vapores fluviales: 1840–1940

Frank Safford
Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 712–713.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-75.4.712
Published: 01 November 1995
...Frank Safford The discussion of technical details makes clear why steam-powered paddle-wheel boats competed with difficulty against diesel-powered propeller-driven craft. The combined weight of steam engines, fuel, water, and paddles was roughly six times that of diesel engines, fuel...
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How Brazil Acquired Roraima

John Hemming
Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (2): 295–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-70.2.295
Published: 01 May 1990
... Branco. The Dutch came from the Caribbean, up the Essequibo and its tributary, the Rupununi, and then across level plains onto the Pirara-Tacutu headwaters of the Branco. The Portuguese paddled up the Amazon and Negro and then up its broad, straight tributary—the Rio Branco. MAP 1: The Rio Branco...
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Juan Gallardo: A Native American Buccaneer

Arne Bialuschewski
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 233–256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8178200
Published: 01 May 2020
... to paddle up the San Juan River and loot Granada, a prospering town of about 2,500 inhabitants not too far from Nicaragua's South Sea coast. Figure 1. Part of the Caribbean where Juan Gallardo was active. Map by Jennifer Grek Martin. Figure 1. Part of the Caribbean where Juan Gallardo was active...
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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Alejandra Bronfman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 681–683.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3161589
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the book reverberates with the din of many utterances. One chapter takes up the bogas , who paddled canoes up the Magdalena River in groups of six or eight and whom Alexander von Humboldt described as upsetting in their “barbarous, lustful, ululating and angry shouting” (quoted on p. 32). Humboldt...
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Revoltas, Motins, Revoluções: Homens Livres Pobres E Libertos No Brasil Do Século XIX

Martha S. Santos
Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 323–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2641406
Published: 01 May 2014
... offices and battalions they attacked, and they did not take money from municipal coffers, which demonstrated their acquiescence to at least some aspects of state power. Instead, they only destroyed records from the justices of the peace and palmatórias (wooden paddles used to punish slaves), which...
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Los aguafi estas: Desafíos a la hegemonía de laé lite yucateca, 1867–1910

Allen Wells
Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 156–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-85-1-156
Published: 01 February 2005
... and then paddled upstream to convince state officials and the local gente decente that their aesthetic undertaking deserved funding. But state budgets were chronically in arrears, and there were rarely enough funds to pay civil servants, let alone subsidize the arts. The conservatory was particularly...
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Childhood Education and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Argentina: The Case of Buenos Aires

Mark D. Szuchman
Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 109–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-70.1.109
Published: 01 February 1990
..., to religious penance, and, finally, to expulsion “in cases of absolute impertinence.” 63 No mention was made of paddling or any form of corporal punishment, which Sarmiento, as an ardent believer in the power of moral suasion on children, thoroughly abhorred. Paddling, or azotes , had been repeatedly dealt...
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Crossing to Safety? Frontier Flight in Eighteenth-Century Belize and Yucatan

Matthew Restall
Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 381–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2694300
Published: 01 August 2014
..., the three maroons paddled upriver until in the early light of dawn they came across another refugee hiding in the forest. Although he was a recent arrival from Africa and his native language unintelligible to the first three, he joined them. They decided, Cuacò later said, to flee “to the Spaniards...
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Yellow Fever and the Late Colonial Public Health Response in the Port of Veracruz

Andrew L. Knaut
Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 619–644.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-77.4.619
Published: 01 November 1997
... and persons from the shore occurred long before the inspecting facultativo began his interrogation, making any subsequent isolation superfluous. As ships neared Veracruz, for example, boys from the town habitually flocked into canoes, paddling out to intercept the new arrival and sell their services...
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A Continent of Immigrants: Postcolonial Shifts in the Western Hemisphere

José C. Moya
Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-86-1-1
Published: 01 February 2006
.... The technological innovations that the industrial revolution unleashed made these improvements possible. From the mid-1800s on, steamships increasingly replaced sailing vessels, the screw propeller supplanted the cumbersome paddle wheel, and iron (and later steel) hulls superseded wooden ones. Meanwhile...
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Stilt-Root Subsistence: Colonial Mangroves and Brazil’s Landless Poor

Shawn W. Miller
Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 223–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-83-2-223
Published: 01 May 2003
... schools, were difficult to net due to their propensity to jump, so fishermen simply beat the water with their paddles and let the fish leap into their canoes. The improbability of this technique is outweighed by the numbers who reported it; around 1800 one witness, John Black, reported that several canoes...
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“Vibrations of the Collective”: The Popular Ideology of Gaitanismo on Colombia’s Atlantic Coast, 1944–1948

W. John Green
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 283–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.2.283
Published: 01 May 1996
... Bogotá nor Medellín enjoyed a direct rail link to the northern coast; paddle-wheeled steamboats on the Magdalena (most based in Barranquilla) were the principal form of transportation for both cargo and passengers 24 After the turn of the century, most of Colombias primary commodity, coffee, passed down...
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Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific

Heidi Tinsman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 439–469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933556
Published: 01 August 2018
... conveniently tethered to a kind of wooden paddle. The priest put it on the altar and then cut off its crest, collecting the blood in a rubber washbowl, in which were then placed a large number of little sticks about an inch long and round like lapel pins, to absorb the blood. Each Chinese man in attendance...
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William Pitt’s Settlement at Black River on the Mosquito Shore: A Challenge to Spain in Central America, 1732-87

Frank Griffith Dawson
Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 677–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-63.4.677
Published: 01 November 1983
... alliance. The inevitable occurred between two and three in the morning of September 4, 1800. Mosquito General Tempest and his men silently paddled their canoes up Black River to overwhelm the town from the rear. The survivors of the massacre, clad in their nightclothes, fled through the jungle to Trujillo...
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“A Healthy Terror”: Police Repression of Capoeiras in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Thomas H. Holloway
Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-69.4.637
Published: 01 November 1989
..., escapees amounted to less than 10 percent of the total. As for the 81 slaves in the Calabouço for capoeira, 66 were whipped, at an average of 81 lashes each; 35 received 100 lashes, and 14 received 50 lashes. Two were beaten with the palmatória (a wooden paddle with perforations in the end...
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