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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of Andean camelids, the bezoar stone played a significant yet academically overlooked role in the social and economic history of modern Europe and Spanish America for its use as an antidote to poisons, and the stones constituted one of the most sought-after objects for the fashionable cabinets...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Ricardo D. Salvatore Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865–1908 . By Carlos S. Dimas . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiii , 321...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (2): 360.
Published: 01 May 1974
...G.W. The Poisoned Water: El agua envenenada . By Benítez Fernando . Translated by Ellsworth Mary E. . Foreword by Davis J. Cary . Carbondale, Illinois , 1973 . Southern Illinois University Press . Pp. vii , 152 . Cloth. $7.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 605.
Published: 01 August 1984
... in the Capitalist World Economy, C hristopher C hase -D unn ; Dependent Reproduction in the World System: A Study on the Incidence of Dependency Reversal, V olker B ornschier ; Foreign Policy Costs of Economic Nationalism: Poisoning the Well?, N eil R. R ichardson ; The Dialectics of Dependency Reversal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 582–583.
Published: 01 August 1979
... the region that technology is contaminating its natural resources. For example, the United Nations director of the Latin American Environment Office warns that larger crops in Central America depend on insecticides which are poisoning water systems. Will Central American governments be willing to rely...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 383.
Published: 01 May 1991
... a treacherous midwife: Panama was born unfree. Over the decades that followed, this poison seeped through the country’s body politic, the fiction of independence masking what was, in reality, a colony. LaFeber conveys with sensitivity and compassion the drama of this poor, warped country—subject to the whims...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 753–754.
Published: 01 November 1968
... and dangerously poisonous. The fish include such oddities as electric eels and the voracious piranhas (pirayas). The insects, of course, are outstanding not only because of their diversity and evolutionary interest, but also because of their beauty. This well-written and beautifully illustrated book...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 234–235.
Published: 01 May 1964
.... The secular, philosophical, and scientific writings of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d’Alembert, and others constituted the greatest moral and intellectual danger to the traditional thought of Spain. The Inquisitor Riesco’s complaint that “France, its morals corrupted to the extreme, is introducing the poison...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 1988
... of questions to be asked in such an inquiry, and of suggestions for finding answers to them. It is also a most convincing document of the vitality of the human spirit, a fine antidote to any lingering poisonous stereotypes of the “passive and fatalistic” Latin American peasant and small-town dwellers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 755–756.
Published: 01 November 1999
..., and poisoning scares. Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856 . Edited and translated by Forster Elborg and Forster Robert . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 644–645.
Published: 01 November 1964
..., with their uses. He also described food plants, maize, peanuts, cassava, and sweet potatoes. Though he accepted some of the misconcepts of his time, in general he observed, reported, and experimented to verify; when he tested poisons on animals he used controls, and continued observations. He had his own...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 452–453.
Published: 01 August 1964
... of Austria, the poor king’s mother; Marie Louise, Carlos’ first wife, said to be a French spy for Louis XIV; and the second wife, María Ana of Neuburg. Through the book there runs a thread of witchcraft, superstition, poison, and the Devil. So fascinated is the author with his material that he spends...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 528–529.
Published: 01 August 1982
... that Latin America currently suffers widespread degradation of its natural environment. Among the examples he cites are deforestation in Mexico and the Amazon Basin, pollution of ocean waters in proximity to large coastal cities, widespread erosion, and the poisoning of soils from herbicides, pesticides...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 470–471.
Published: 01 August 1965
..., and restoration of tourist traffic. Mexico offers no relief in this surge of complaint and pessimistic evaluation: “A new robber baron era is swinging into high gear . . . labor leaders are in jail, editors and painters are in jail: the poison of power and injustice seeps in everywhere . . . a new...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 140–141.
Published: 01 February 1997
... conceived, as it is the automobile, rather than the factory, that has poisoned the Mexican capital and turned this once beautiful city into the planet’s most polluted urban concentration. This book offers fresh insights useful to students of the political economy of development and urban studies. One...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (3): 602–603.
Published: 01 August 1975
... of curfews, sumptuary laws, slave patrols, more rigorous physical punishments, and restrictions on assembly. Slaves responded to these measures in the only way they could—running away, stealing, malingering, poisoning, murdering, and burning. That some were even willing to go as far as to revolt against...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 1993
... eugenics and the environment, they believed that “racial poisons” (alcohol and venereal diseases, for example) mostly caused hereditary degenerations that could affect the population of their nations. As a result, they often advocated preventive eugenics in the form of welfare programs and health campaigns...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 February 1993
... political reforms had to be preceded by commercial reforms, and taxes on the American trade could not be arbitrary but had to be subject to the European trade balance. Finally, in the face of a possible revolution, instead of waiting for it to happen as a kind of internal blood poisoning, the country should...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 549–551.
Published: 01 November 1963
... sores. They also suffered and died from food poisoning due to improperly preserved meat. They report malaria suffered by natives and Europeans alike. The quina bark had not yet been introduced from Peru. Dysentery was occasional; so was infectious diarrhea. The reference to Bubas apparently does...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 514–515.
Published: 01 August 1994
... frequently, the court records document individual acts of illegal slave behavior, such as murder, poisoning, theft, possession of firearms, desertion, and arson. New Orleans, as the only sizable North American port between Veracruz and Charleston, also attracted a rowdy transient population that mixed...
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