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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 499–500.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Alicia Vidaurreta El desgaste de las levitas: Entre el Quebracho y la elección de Batlle, 1886–1903 . By Olivera Enrique Arocena . Montevideo : Barreiro y Ramos Editores , 1989 . Tables. Graphics . Pp. 206 . Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The political...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 622–623.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Gilberto Ramírez Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The subject of this book is the Quebracho Revolt of 1886 against Máximo Santos, one of three soldiers who dominated Uruguayan politics from 1875 to 1890. Traditionally, Argentine historians have viewed this event as a minor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1959) 39 (2): 337.
Published: 01 May 1959
...Fritz L. Hoffmann Estrategia revolucionaria. Lucha por la unidad y por la liberación nacional y social de la América Latina . By Lisborio Justo Quebracho . Buenos Aires , 1957 . Editorial Fragua . Pp. 229 . Paper . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (1): 194.
Published: 01 February 1979
... been dormant since a decline in demand for yerba mate and quebracho wood, formerly used for tanning extract and railroad ties. Cattle raising, subsistence farming, and lumbering are the main activities. Industrial employment is limited to some 7,000 jobs in sawmills and a cement plant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 August 1995
... of the region’s economy, notably the quebracho, tannin, and oil industries. The book includes the re-edition of a text by the French geographer Pierre Denis depicting the Tucumán sugar industry in the first decades of this century. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 613–614.
Published: 01 August 1988
... to their investments, and could not divest themselves of them. While CALCO devoted itself exclusively to land development and speculation, luring agricultural settlers to its lands, most other big, successful land companies had diversified interests. Companies specializing in the production of quebracho, wool...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 710–711.
Published: 01 November 1993
... became a supplier of raw materials such as yerba mate, timber, tobacco, quebracho, and cattle products to the outside world. Immense tracts of national lands were reserved for foreign companies and a small elite. The Paraguayan economy rapidly became captive to foreign interests. The campesino...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 797–799.
Published: 01 November 1999
... Salvador foreign investment (in which German activity played an important, if dwindling role) constituted an informal empire over a “peripheral export economy.” After Frank Ibold’s excursion into the German-controlled Quebracho industry in the Chacó region of northwestern Argentina, Stefan Karlen...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 568–569.
Published: 01 August 2008
... from his Paraguay years described Rickard as “fearlessly riding through the Gran Chaco quebracho forests and grasslands of the Paraguay Land & Cattle Company, [which were] infested by hostile Indians who refrained from attacking the bold Texan” (p. 55). The most important section of the book...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 57–79.
Published: 01 February 1995
..., adding their weight to local protests. Although the repression began earlier, it was after November 1921 that the slaughter of strikers started, leading to at least 1,500 deaths. 39 In northern Santa Fe Province a British-owned company, La Forestal, controlled vast tracts of quebracho trees, from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 239–285.
Published: 01 May 1986
... of all Soviet trade with South America was with Argentina. Export products included hides, quebracho extract, wool, and casein, while Argentina imported various kinds of lumber, furs, lamps, lentils, caviar, and so forth. Trade was financed through domestic and foreign banks, primarily the Banco de la...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 38–59.
Published: 01 February 1946
... thousand and of those hurt to four thousand. More than 55,000 arrests and detensions were made by the police.21 This week is generally spoken of as la semana tragica. In 1921 bitterly fought strikes took place at La Forestal, the largest quebracho center in the Argentine Chaco. Conditions there border...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 1989
... los partidos, 1838-1843 ." Anuario de Historia Argentina , 3 ( 1941 ), 53 - 78 . Historia de los partidos políticos en el Uruguay (1828-1897) , 2 vols., Montevideo , 1942 - 1943 ; 2d ed. , 1956 . Crónicas de la Revolución del Quebracho , Montevideo , 1943 . Pivel Devoto...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 233–258.
Published: 01 May 1984
... the female in regional strength. Men’s brigades were heavily concentrated in areas of bitter labor strife essential to the export economy: the cereal zone, the littoral ports, the northern lowlands and quebracho forests, and Patagonia. Considering its share of the national population, the Andean region...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 May 1987
... to the same destination. 7 Prices of fuel and most of the raw materials employed in sugar manufacturing rose in response to spiraling freight costs and the valorization of imported substitutes. That of quebracho, a native hardwood which was the ingenios’ favorite boiler fuel, was typical. A cheap...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 615–648.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to the region would be the material of choice for the men fighting in the Chaco frontier. He noted that shelters made of palm needed to be .9 centimeters thick, while those made of hardwoods such as algarrobo needed to be only .7 centimeters, of quebracho .5 centimeters, and of palo santo .4 centimeters...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 719–754.
Published: 01 November 2002
... The entire property was subdivided into 118 plots, many of which were very small in size. Each ranch was fenced with 6–8 galvanized wires around strong wooden ( quebracho ) posts. Each ranch had its own automatic locking mechanism. Almost half the area was devoted to growing alfalfa for fodder. This type...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 387–421.
Published: 01 August 2017
... a product of Lavalle's fear of his own execution, “the punishment of his own crime.” 16 Despite the backing of the French, who imposed a blockade on Buenos Aires, Lavalle decided not to take the city, and he retreated to the north, toward the province of Salta. In Salta, after his defeat at Quebracho...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 443–482.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Liborio Justo (“Quebracho”), the Trotskyist son of President Augustín P. Justo and a former member of the AIAPE Comisión Directiva, denounced the reformist direction of both the PC and the AIAPE as early as October 1936. 63 In late September 1937, however, the newspaper Avance made public a letter...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (1): 1–153.
Published: 01 February 1996
...: entre el Quebracho y la election de Batlle, 1886-1903, reviewed, 70:499-500 Arquitectura de la epoca del canal, 1880- 1914, y sus paralelos norteamericanos, franceses, y caribenos, by Samuel A. Gutierrez, reviewed, 68:158-60 Arquitectura en dos archipielagos caribenos, La: estudio comparado de Bocas del...
