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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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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 699–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Paul Gootenberg Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Imagine an Indigenous Amazonian stimulant plant, colonized, classified, and coveted by Western medicine by the nineteenth century, added into an energizing secret-formula soda fountain drink, which then booms in the industrial...
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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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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 628.
Published: 01 August 1991
... 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, Plants, and Other Singular Things Completely Unknown over Here . By De Léry Jean . Translation...
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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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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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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 February 2006
...J. R. McNeill Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America . By Dunmire William W. . Illustrated by Dunmire Evengeline L. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2004 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Glossary...
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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 (2000) 80 (3): 463–501.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., Bananas (London: Longman, 1959); Robert H. Stover, “Fusarial Wilt (Panama Disease) of the Banana and other Musa Species,” Phytopathological Paper , no. 4 (Commonwealth Mycological Institute, 1964); and C. W. Wardlaw, Diseases of the Banana and of the Manila Hemp Plant (London: MacMillan and Co., 1935...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 214–218.
Published: 01 May 1964
... in London with facility, all but wrecking the production from the Americas. 14 Even though the indigo grew wild in East Florida, tender care was given the plant during its period of growth. Two major problems confronted the planter during the indigo’s growing period; drought and caterpillars...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 August 1999
... terrain. Sacred plants have scarcely been mentioned in works on Afro-Brazilian religions, in contrast to the extensive ethnobotanical literature that has developed around the hallucinogens used in autochthonous New World religions. However, Voeks convincingly establishes the importance of sacred plants...
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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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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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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 644–645.
Published: 01 November 1964
... and exact descriptions of plants, both Spanish and American, their natural history and method of cultivation. Most of his plants are readily identified, though the engravings in his books are poor. He was the first to report on American jalap, sassafras, tobacco, guayac, balsams of Peru and Tolu...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 February 1967
..., and beverage plants. The author attempts to distinguish between native and introduced elements of the material culture, and to date the first appearance of a given element. This essentially successful chronological placement and the scientific identification of most plants and animals in Tarahumar economy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 539–577.
Published: 01 November 1990
... was a well-conceived, if limited, initiative. It not only tried to promote the establishment of new plants but attempted to foster technological advancement, since it provided tax exemptions for the use of new methods and productive processes. The law also offered benefits to hydroelectric or thermoelectric...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 February 2003
... was not merely the transfer of a plant but the wholesale importation of an entire African cultural system encompassing agricultural and technological knowledge, food habits, a gender division of labor, ethnic skills, and time-work organization. Her analysis gives voice and agency to the slave population still...
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