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Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 699–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Paul Gootenberg [email protected] Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant . By Seth Garfield . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 320 pp. Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Morton Winsberg The one dominant theme of the book is the search for different species of the genus Nicotiana , of which Tabacum , the common tobáceo plant, is most famous. Involving over 25 years of effort, lengthy and difficult journeys into the selva, páramos, and such exotic places...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 607.
Published: 01 November 1962
...Omer C. Stewart The Upland Pine Forests of Nicaragua: A Study in Cultural Plant Geography . By Genevan William M. . Berkeley , 1961 . University of California Press . University of California Publications in Geography , Volume 12 , No. 4 . Pp. 251 - 320 . $1.50 . Copyright...
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in Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 1999
Fig. 1: Architectural blueprint for the El Paso Disinfection Plant, 1917. Photo Included in letter from C. C. Pierce to the Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248.
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The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Joel Wolfe The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964 . By Welch Cliff . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1999 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxi , 412 pp. Cloth...
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Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Linda A. Newson Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Londa Schiebinger . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 234 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 628.
Published: 01 August 1991
... with the Description of Various Animals, Trees, Plants, and Other Singular Things Completely Unknown over Here . By De Léry Jean . Translation and introduction by Whatley Janet . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. lxii , 276 pp. Cloth...
View articletitled, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise called America, Containing the Navigation and the Remarkable Things Seen on the Sea by the Author; the Behavior of Villegagnon in That Country; and the Customs and Strange Ways of Life of the American Savages; Together with the Description of Various Animals, Trees, <span class="search-highlight">Plants</span>, and Other Singular Things Completely Unknown over Here
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Steel and Economic Development: Capital-Output Ratios in Three Latin American Steel Plants
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 510–512.
Published: 01 August 1969
... Steel Plants . By Greene David G. . East Lansing 1967 . Michigan State University. Institute for International Business and Economic Development Studies . Tables. Notes. Appendices . Pp. x , 124 . $4.50 . ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 181.
Published: 01 February 1968
...O. P. S. Plants, Animals, and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies. An Ecological Study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla . By Harris David R. . Berkeley , 1965 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp...
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People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875-1950
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 463–501.
Published: 01 August 2000
.... By the 1920s, several hundred kilometers of railroads crossed the region and banana plantations covered vast expanses of the Caribbean lowlands. When workers replaced lowland forests and wetlands with banana plants, they transformed ecosystems characterized by an extremely high diversity of flora and low...
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Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 February 2006
...J. R. McNeill The prose is serviceable but without much zest. The tables are very useful, capturing a lot of the book’s information and presenting it in economical form, and the sketches of plants and various agricultural tools are welcome. The maps are also well done and helpful. The citation...
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The Transplantation of Wheat in Sixteenth-Century Hispaniola: Royal Institutions, Colonization, and Agronomic Testing
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11834408.
Published: 29 April 2025
... of Trade. The repeated attempts to transplant wheat to Hispaniola entailed significant resources, which suggests a strong connection between plants and colonization in the settlements there. Despite evidence that wheat could not grow well in Hispaniola, policies to transplant wheat in the island continued...
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Indigo Production in the Eighteenth Century
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 214–218.
Published: 01 May 1964
...Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr. * The author is a doctoral student at the University of Florida. Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 T he production of indigo was important to the economy of eighteenth-century Spanish America. The indigo plant was grown and processed principally...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 August 1999
... . Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 In his exploration of the ethnobotany of Brazilian Candomblé, Robert Voeks has uncovered fascinating dimensions to a familiar religious terrain. Sacred plants have scarcely been mentioned in works on Afro-Brazilian religions, in contrast to the extensive...
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Dom João’s Botanical Garden
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1961) 41 (2): 259–274.
Published: 01 May 1961
... in Brazil that might compete with Portuguese enterprise, and no plants that were already cultivated in other Portuguese domains might be grown. The poverty-stricken character of the material aspects of life was reflected in the social. Brazilian women were immured in their houses in oriental seclusion...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 484–487.
Published: 01 August 1965
... gardens increasingly becoming a matter of state, Spain yearned to become the world leader in plant exploration. Yet of the three major expeditions that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment only that of Ruiz and Pavón to the Viceroyalty of Peru resulted in substantial publications during the lifetime...
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This cross section of the bezoar, although not drawn to scale, reveals the ...
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in From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
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Published: 01 February 2010
Figure 2 This cross section of the bezoar, although not drawn to scale, reveals the stone’s onionlike layers. From Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux, & des minéraux , Seconde Partie, Livre premier, Des animaux , Chapitre III, Du Bezoar (Paris
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Missionspharmazie: Konzepte, Praxis, Organisation Und Wissenschaftliche Ausstrahlung
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 293–294.
Published: 01 May 2013
... medicinal plants after the Encounter. This investigative shortage is difficult to comprehend, considering that during the early 1500s considerable progress was made in human anatomy and the medical sciences, and healing plants from Asia, Africa, and the Americas were incorporated into the European...
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Nicolás Bautista Monardes. Su vida y su obra
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 644–645.
Published: 01 November 1964
... This meticulous and well-documented study of Nicolás Monardes (1493-1588) amplifies fragmentary 19th- and 20th-century works which deal mainly with curious and exotic aspects of his investigations. The best known medico of 16th-century Spain, his writings on American drug plants were translated into Latin...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 539–577.
Published: 01 November 1990
... one of the three largest textile manufacturing plants in the country, and, according to Najri, it was the most modern one in the early 1950s. 65 Its contract was almost identical to that granted to Bendek y Compañía six months before. 66 These were not the only contracts granted...
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