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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
... University Press 1989 O n the night of December 28, 1836, Rio de Janeiro police arrested Graciano, a Mina slave, born in West Africa. He had run afoul of the law before, for disrespect to authority, possession of illegal weapons, and engaging in capoeira. Beyond the gymnastic fighting technique...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 February 1999
... practices of the “spy agencies” and “political police” of the United States. Readers looking for evidence of complicated CIA conspiracies and assassination plots will find no “smoking gun” in this collection. There are some valuable documents, including Richard Goodwin’s memoranda to President Kennedy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 632–633.
Published: 01 August 1983
... of favor of office for material gain becomes indispensable if an effective system of patronage, essential for ensuring loyalty to the political directorate, is to be maintained. At the same time, knowledge that individuals are habitually engaged in corrupt practices, and most members of the police seem...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 693–694.
Published: 01 November 1982
...John H. Coatsworth Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development . By Vanderwood Paul J. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1981 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 264 . Cloth. $21.50 . Paper. $8.95 . Copyright 1982...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 651–678.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by criminologists and occasionally targeted by police. Scholarship on these subjects has often focused on medical and cultural representation, situating maricas in the genealogy of homosexuality. This article brings insights from trans studies to several microhistories from police and prison archives in Rosario...
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in Peruvian Cocaine Tangles: Arrests and Assertions of Innocence in Ayacucho's Drug Trade, 1976–1981
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 1. Police photograph of Marina Pelagia Velarde Rodríguez, Dina René Velarde Rodríguez, and Teodosio Valenzuela Ruiz, November 1979. Archivo Regional de Ayacucho, Corte Superior de Justicia Penal Huamanga, paq. 466, exp. 04562, fol. 25. Courtesy of Ayacucho Regional Archive
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in Peruvian Cocaine Tangles: Arrests and Assertions of Innocence in Ayacucho's Drug Trade, 1976–1981
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 2. Police photograph of Julián Tineo Guillén and his father, November 1978. Archivo Regional de Ayacucho, Corte Superior de Justicia Penal Huamanga, paq. 420, exp. 004724, fol. 16. Courtesy of Ayacucho Regional Archive
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in Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. Transcript of police interrogation of Emilia Q., Rosario, 26 Oct. 1931, AGPSF, prontuario 8367. The image has been altered to preserve Emilia's anonymity.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 384.
Published: 01 May 1991
...David Sowell The Problem of Order in Changing Societies: Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, 1750-1940 . Edited by Johnson Lyman L. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1990 . Tables. Graphs. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Index . xx , 161 pp...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 386–388.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Andrew Paxman Policing the Mexican Past: Transitional Justice in a Post-authoritarian Regime . By Javier Trevino-Rangel . Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2022 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 307 pp. Cloth, $139.99...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Diana J. Montaño Abstract This essay explores Mexico City's electrification in the early twentieth century through the lens of power theft. The arrest and resulting trial of dozens of capitalinos (Mexico City residents) suspected of power theft allow us to document the nuances of policing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 747–748.
Published: 01 November 2021
... because they contribute not to any overarching goal but rather to the book's general unwieldiness. Insurgency, Counter-insurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926–1929: Fighting Cristeros . By Mark Lawrence . New York : Bloomsbury , 2020 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 713–714.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Lyman L. Johnson Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City . By Holloway Thomas H. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 369 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1995...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Figure 1. Police photograph of Marina Pelagia Velarde Rodríguez, Dina René Velarde Rodríguez, and Teodosio Valenzuela Ruiz, November 1979. Archivo Regional de Ayacucho, Corte Superior de Justicia Penal Huamanga, paq. 466, exp. 04562, fol. 25. Courtesy of Ayacucho Regional Archive ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 449–480.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Maria G. Gatti Abstract Brazilian novelist Érico Veríssimo (1905–75) was an ambiguous subject of the Good Neighbor Policy: invited to the United States by the Department of State, he was also accused of anti-Americanism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). An international police...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 37–69.
Published: 01 February 2015
... drug usage in the interwar period, explored here, had defined the medical contours of toxicomanía (addiction). But as the 1970s progressed, new legislation framed the drug problem as one of national security, proscribing illicit drug distribution, penalizing consumers, and authorizing federal police...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 269–297.
Published: 01 May 2015
... direct military control, through projects such as the creation of a US-officered frontier guard. Established in 1905 to police revenue along the Dominican-Haitian border, this unique organization had neither precedent nor sanction in international law, but it demonstrated the makeshift Caribbean policy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 501–531.
Published: 01 August 2019
... nationalism of the day. The article analyzes labor struggles and the move toward industrial organizing in Mollendo, Peru; Chilean Industrial Workers of the World efforts at creating links with Peruvian workers; and police repression after a 1925 strike in Mollendo. I combine an in-depth view of local...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 223–250.
Published: 01 May 2022
... shifting carceral priorities during periods of political crisis and reform, increased detention of women, and the function of racial categories. These patterns suggest that Bourbon reformers used policing power as a form of social control while the visitas continued to operate as a performance of royal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Pedro Jimenez Cantisano Abstract This article considers the rights-based opposition that helped fuel Rio de Janeiro's 1904 Vaccine Revolt. I argue that the revolt was embedded in sociolegal conflicts about the policing of homes. In the early twentieth century, empowered by new laws, public health...
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