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Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 2020
... condición femenina en el México colonial . It was long past time for new insights, and this is a book that is clearly informed by the theoretical and activist approaches that have blossomed since the 1990s. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 683–684.
Published: 01 November 1976
... to minimize discontent, class coalescence, and possibilities of violent protest through emphasis upon patrimonial, patron-client relationships in separate vertical hierarchies which depend upon government and President to facilitate communication among them. The decision to establish a profit-sharing...
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Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil: Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 May 2025
...” served multiple goals—as labor solution, means to populate Brazil with preferred categories of immigrants, and, above all, a way to earn profits. Pérez Meléndez demonstrates that postindependence migrations to Brazil were carefully planned and potentially lucrative. Entrepreneurs negotiated handsome...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 405–440.
Published: 01 August 1995
... the Enlightenment and the Age of Democratic Revolution. No doubt, colonial merchants were bold and aggressive, willing to undertake risks to realize large profits. But they were innovative and conservative at the same time. Ultimately, they were unconcerned with what their actions meant for the “transformation...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Profits</span>, Prestige, and Persistence: Juan Fermín de Aycinena and the Spirit of Enterprise in the Kingdom of Guatemala
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Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 557–559.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Rafael R. Ioris Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression . Edited by Victoria Basualdo , Hartmut Berghoff , and Marcelo Bucheli . Palgrave Studies in Latin American Heterodox Economics . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave...
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Structure and Profitability of Royal Finance in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1790
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 440–469.
Published: 01 August 1973
..., just as they were in total revenue. In Table V we also see that Carangas, a relatively low total revenue producer, was a high “profit” area for the Crown. The area with the greatest disparity between its total revenue rank order and its profitability is of course Buenos Aires. Table IV Surplus...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (3): 468–495.
Published: 01 August 1975
...William F. Sharp * The author is Assistant Professor of History at Temple University. Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The profitability of slavery has become a question of considerable historical importance. Before the detailed study presented by Alfred H. Conrad...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 434.
Published: 01 May 1970
...D. M. P. The Central American Common Market: Profits & Problems in an Integrating Economy . New York , 1969 . Business International Corporation . Map. Tables. Appendices . Pp. 67 . Paper. $50.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 This research report is one...
View articletitled, The Central American Common Market: <span class="search-highlight">Profits</span> &amp; Problems in an Integrating Economy
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in Business Imperialism and British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, Limited, 1830-1960
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Published: 01 November 1986
FIGURE 7: Profits and Losses, St. John d’el Rey Mining Company, Limited. Source: AR .
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Consuming the Mexican Body: Gender, Race, and the Nation in Macho Tips , 1985–1989
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 655–687.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and gender to make a profit, the magazine reconceptualized their meanings to debunk stereotypes that marginalized gay men. Macho Tips detached macho aesthetics from heterosexuality and successfully blurred the line between straight and gay Mexican masculinities. As a result, the magazine nationalized...
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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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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Marcia Stephenson Abstract Introducing intertwined themes of profit, the hunt for treasure, and the excavation of camelid bodies; and drawing from the analysis of Renaissance medical books, bilingual Aymara–Spanish and Quechua–Spanish dictionaries, inquisition records, and inventories of curiosity...
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Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 174–175.
Published: 01 February 2016
... that unchecked foreign influence caused underdevelopment. He concludes that foreign influence was limited by pointing to foreign owners' inability to exploit the country, which he measures through profit extraction and labor conditions. Many foreign businesses failed, and consistent profits were rare; those...
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British Railways in Argentina, 1857-1914
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 162–164.
Published: 01 February 1985
... companies—the broad-gage lines—to elucidate aspects of the broader Anglo-Argentine relationship after 1870. He considers the conception, execution, financing, and profitability of railway ventures, the expectations of Argentina’s elites in pursuing railway development, and the conditions that engendered...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 665–681.
Published: 01 November 1970
... industry to be the key to Mexico’s economic and fiscal revival and set up an entire program of reform, designed to make mining profitable and respectable. At the institutional level he organized the industry into a guild, whose local courts were granted jurisdiction over all mining lawsuits. In Mexico City...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 367–418.
Published: 01 August 1998
... a shift away from estate cropping and toward multiple tenancies. The role of popular mobilization in these transformations awaits exploration. Chowning, however, does indicate a return to estate profitability and renewed elite power in Michoacán beginning in the late 1830s, as estates and elites profited...
View articletitled, The Revolution in Mexican Independence: Insurgency and the Renegotiation of Property, Production, and Patriarchy in the Bajío, 1800-1855
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Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 739–740.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Vacations is really about hotel resort tourism development and how U.S. and then later European corporations made economic deals with Latin American countries to help increase their profits. Ward traces how Conrad Hilton and Nelson and Laurance Rockefeller built resort hotels in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 February 1997
... and liberal reforms, markets improved, yet uncertainties persisted. Haciendas attempted to increase production and profits, with inconsistent results. Only during the Porfiriato did production and profits generally revive; and Miller strengthens our grasp of that revival with new detail on when and why some...
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Metal-Mining in Peru, Past and Present
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 668–669.
Published: 01 November 1973
.... Concerning a U.S. company that exports Peru’s iron ore, the author concludes that it is a lucrative business whose profits could have been used to great advantage by the Peruvian government for the state owned steel mill. Why the steel mill, he does not justify, and he calculates the profits incorrectly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 February 1975
... of commerce. Small groups of merchants were engaged in the shipping of metals from Alto Perú to Spain via Buenos Aires, and in the importation of slaves from Africa. Only 10 percent of the merchants failed to specialize in any one branch of commerce, finding it more profitable to vary activities by demand...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 244–245.
Published: 01 May 1967
... revolution suggest that “one must make profit promptly while one’s friends are still in government” (p. 159). Many of us are familiar with the Schumpeterian model in which the innovating entrepreneur is cast in the role of active agent in the development process. Lauterbach’s findings indicate that Latin...
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