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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 February 2018
... State 1492–1867 (1991). Through a rereading of the original sources and a reconstruction of the historiographical origins of creole patriotism in German existentialism, the article argues that the identity of the New World protagonists in the controversy had little to do with either creolism...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 769–770.
Published: 01 November 1979
... was in important respects “a Mexico of the mind.” Nevertheless, as the author emphasizes, the choice of the Mexican locale is anything but incidental. To use Walker’s neat alliteration, “blood, border, and barranca” provide powerful metaphors for the interior struggles of the protagonists of the novels. What first...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 386–387.
Published: 01 May 1988
... Universidad Javeriana, in cooperation with Cine Colombia, has prepared this combination of “oral” and “documentary” history. The heart of the production is a series of interviews, “the testimony of 33 important and influential protagonists in our Colombian political history,” which are interspersed with film...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 719–721.
Published: 01 November 2022
... picaresque writings as cultural offspring of imperialism and capitalism remains a source of lively debate among literary scholars. While nearly everyone agrees that picaresque novels and their deceitful protagonists have always been “protean” and diverse, some scholars hold to a definition of picaresque...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 649.
Published: 01 August 1991
...J. León Helguera Adolfo Samper , like its talented protagonist, is a fine addition to the growing literature on Colombian political caricature. Samper’s Liberal cartoonist’s pen fell on hard times in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Censorship of his work and closure of his party’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 746.
Published: 01 November 1987
... to “invent” Rio de Janeiro by bringing to the stage the scenario and protagonists of the city’s transformation and by offering the public a fictional solution to anxieties caused by modernization. Rio de Janeiro is thus the revista’ s central protagonist. The study, based on an analysis of 19 revistas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11384858.
Published: 26 June 2024
... were a result of a multilateral convergence of ever-widening circles of protagonists gathering around camelid bodies (p. 8). These protagonists include early modern Spanish colonial of cials, French naturalists, Ecuadorean politicians, British entrepreneurs, Australian zoologists, and US fashion...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 374–375.
Published: 01 May 1988
... of the questions to be asked of a biography is whether the protagonist was worth writing about, and whether he is worth reading about. On this showing, both questions must be answered in the affirmative; the journalist Carleton Beals was an acute observer and reporter of Latin American and world reality...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 503–535.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Ariel de la Fuente Oral culture, as Paz recognized, was a political domain, a space where the struggle between Unitarians and Federalists was waged. Humor was also used as a weapon in this conflict and Unitarian and Federalist leaders became protagonists (and targets!) of jokes. During the 1840s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 716–717.
Published: 01 November 2008
... celebrated as a definitive novel about the “epic vanguard” in which the protagonist merges with the collectivity, Serra sees as a novel in which “the narrator as craftsman takes centre stage,” prevented by “the pleasure of the text” from “disappearing behind the unity of the nation he has created...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 772–773.
Published: 01 November 1984
... turns to a topic that he has made his own—the Cristero movement. The eighty-page effort provides a synthesis of the scholar’s sympathetic comprehension of the movement. Beyond external relations, the author turns to the state and its protagonists—the leadership, the army, labor, and the agrarians...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 524–525.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Arango Ramírez y su legado traces the life of the Panamanian Arangos from the arrival of the first family member in the early nineteenth century to his descendant José Agustín Arango Remón, one of the protagonists of Panama's independence from Colombia in 1903. The book, commissioned by the Arango...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 518–520.
Published: 01 August 2009
... describes the protagonists (creole merchants, peninsulares recently arrived to Peru, the Real Compañía de Filipinas, and the Cinco Gremios Mayores de Madrid) and the ways the conflict grew and intertwined with the debates that concerned the government of Spain and its colonies during those frantic years...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 364–365.
Published: 01 May 2021
... protagonists break these comfortable but insipid molds: the opportunistic gachupincito who becomes a flamboyant imperialist commander; the wily, self-centered, manipulative, sexually aggressive older woman; the shy, dark-skinned costeño who can neither laugh nor dance. The antics of the first two are often...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 767–769.
Published: 01 November 2012
... weakened Brazil and Brazilians. Biology became more than science, since it coincided with the urgent desire to occupy the nation’s interior and cure its ills, particularly in health and environmental deterioration. Social harmony came to characterize the political project, and the museum’s protagonists saw...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and a dismissive remark: ‘Let's not be so theatrical, dear Minister’” (p. 153). Oxford University Press has positioned the book as a study of anarchism; recognizing the range of anarchist positions among his protagonists, Craib settles on a “broad perspective on anarchism,” advancing a working definition whereby...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 366–368.
Published: 01 May 2020
... protagonists in these debates: Carlos Quijano, the founder and editor in chief of Marcha ; Alberto Methol Ferré; and Carlos Real de Azúa. The study uncovers how each of them engaged with broader economic and geopolitical paradigms, with Quijano criticizing US-dominated Pan-Americanism and the technocratic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 309–310.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in a shipload of rebellious slaves” (p. 41). Regarding West Indians, the author does not describe colonial exploitation and taxation that drove the poor to emigrate. West Indian elites and poor are collapsed into a single unit. Oral or cultural histories of black protagonists are largely absent from Colby’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 327–328.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Mobility is a central focus of this book. José Armando Hernández Soubervielle uses Inquisition records to recover and analyze the protagonist's physical movement across vast distances in addition to his social mobility, or his capacity to navigate multiple cultural contexts in different cities and spaces...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11543255.
Published: 25 September 2024
... as the unfolding of, and a protagonist in, global historical phenomena cannot be a new discovery, but a recovery, a restitution of the past s own terms. Thus, there have long been variegated cosmopolitanisms that have seen Mexico s past more than Mexicanly from Bernal D´ az del Castillo to Francisco Xavier...