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Hispanic American Historical Review (1951) 31 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 February 1951
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1936) 16 (4): 537–543.
Published: 01 November 1936
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 728–729.
Published: 01 November 2016
... chronology of when early events occurred. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The First Letter from New Spain: The Lost Petition of Cortés and His Company, June 20, 1519 . By Schwaller John F. . With Nader Helen . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American...
View articletitled, The First Letter from New Spain: The Lost <span class="search-highlight">Petition</span> of Cortés and His Company, June 20, 1519
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 638.
Published: 01 August 1983
...Susan M. Deeds Las Casas as a Bishop: A New Interpretation Based on His Holograph Petition in the Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American Manuscripts . By Parish Helen Rand . Foreword by Kahler Mary Ellis . Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress , 1980 . Notes...
View articletitled, Las Casas as a Bishop: A New Interpretation Based on His Holograph <span class="search-highlight">Petition</span> in the Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American Manuscripts
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 377–406.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., multiple petitions). 36 Sometimes, the measure even directly cited a petitioner's initiative in the second half of the opening statement, or dirección. For instance, ministers addressed the 1588 mestizo decree to the “bishops of the church cathedrals of Cuzco, La Plata, San Francisco de Quito...
View articletitled, A Thousand Invisible Architects: Vassals, the <span class="search-highlight">Petition</span> and Response System, and the Creation of Spanish Imperial Caste Legislation
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in A Refuge from Science: The Practice and Politics of Rights in Brazil's Vaccine Revolt
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. This hand-cut newspaper clipping glued to Augusto Queirós's petition shows how petitioners used legal news to support their cases in court. Habeas corpus case filed by Queirós, Rio de Janeiro, 1905, AN, Fundo BV, Série HCO, Cód. Ref. BV.0.HCO.2293.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 595–626.
Published: 01 November 2005
... poor, rather than economic poor. The number of petitioners seeking legal aid jumped between 1782 and 1783, from a mere 7 petitions to 23; I use this year as the separation point between early and later understandings of “solemn poor.” Some of this increase came from creoles who suffered...
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View articletitled, Poverty and the Politics of Colonialism: “Poor Spaniards,” Their <span class="search-highlight">Petitions</span>, and the Erosion of Privilege in Late Colonial Quito
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 687–688.
Published: 01 November 2024
... study of colonial categorization and tribute in the two viceroyalties. Sarah Albiez-Wieck offers a comparative view of self-fashioning and belonging through petitions, many from archives in Cajamarca and Michoacán as well as Trujillo. The author examines the goals of petitioners to change their official...
View articletitled, Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century): Fiscal <span class="search-highlight">Petitions</span> Negotiating Social Differences and Belonging
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1919) 2 (3): 447–453.
Published: 01 August 1919
View articletitled, Two Spanish <span class="search-highlight">Petitions</span> Concerning Noted Authors of the New World of the Early Seventeenth Century
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 502–503.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Woodrow Borah Les Petites Antilles de Cristophe Colomb à Richelieu (1493-1635) . by Moreau Jean-Pierre . Paris : Editions Karthala , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 319 pp. Paper . The Repeating Island: The Caribbean...
View articletitled, Les <span class="search-highlight">Petites</span> Antilles de Cristophe Colomb à Richelieu (1493-1635) The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
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Published: 01 November 1983
GRAPH 1: * The wages are taken from labor contracts, libretas , and petitions and are converted into United States gold using the ratios in John Parke Young, Central American Currency and Finance (Princeton, 1925), p. 39; where the rate of conversion varied during the year, that most
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 421–443.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the masculine, as “el suplicante”) or “petitioner.” 17 The papers consist of a letter by the priest Fray Joseph Moreno Justi (dated January 3, 1759) to González de Cervantes informing him of the case; an undated letter by Aguilera with his petition and some biographical information; a more formal, sworn...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2008
... in everyday communication and record keeping among the indigenous population of colonial Peru by examining a corpus of Quechua documents, mostly letters and petitions from the seventeenth century. The linguistic features and archival contexts of these documents are analyzed to determine the extent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 259–296.
Published: 01 May 2017
... agenda did not simply silence Indian communities' demands and impose a top-down land reform. This article shows how comunario petitions redefined the MNR's initial land reform program and how claimants used this expanded program to restore their communities. In doing so, these petitioners reshaped...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of essentialized truths about the enslavement of individuals and about slavery writ large. In their legal petitions for freedom, Reche-Mapuche slaves had to speak against the grain of these legal instrumenta , which expressed a legally enforceable act or action as well as evidence of that action. Certification...
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in A “Safe Haven”: Runaway Slaves, Mocambos, and Borders in Colonial Amazonia, Brazil
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2002
Figure 1 Eighteenth-Century Map Showing the Eastern Border Regions of Brazilian Guyana. Source: S. Bellin, Le petit atlas maritime (Paris, 1764).
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 156–157.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Spanish authorities in reverential language and referred to the petitioners, themselves often members of the indigenous high nobility, in humble, deferent terms, characteristic of preconquest speechmaking. Because petitions were generally longer, more varied, and less formulaic than more mundane genres...
View articletitled, Nuestro pesar, nuestra aflicción: Tunetuliniliz, tucucuca, memorias en lengua Náhuatl enviadas a Felipe II por indígenas del Valle de Guatemala hacia 1572
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the expedition after Veracruz. She has opted to organize the thumbnail biographies alphabetically rather than in the order in which the individuals appeared on the petition, although she does cross-reference the location of each signature. The biographies occupy about a third of the book. In writing them, she...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 611–630.
Published: 01 November 1987
...David Sowell Predictably, the society’s first venture during the Obando administration consisted of a petition to the congress in favor of increased tariff rates. While no longer in control of the executive branch of government, Gólgotas still controlled the congress, and the petition was denied...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 516–518.
Published: 01 August 2024
... framework through which petitions and decrees were understood in the sixteenth century and, if that is true, whether they were closer to pleas and rulings than to laws or policies in the modern sense. We must now rethink the influence of religion and ecclesiastical courts in royal administration...
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