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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (2): 386–387.
Published: 01 May 1985
... 1890 and 1930. This is a work of synthesis, one that answers with precision the questions posed. It also raises new questions on the viability of (other) comparative studies. Copyright 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Party Competition in Argentina and Chile: Political Recruitment...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 226–250.
Published: 01 May 1975
... the outbreak of the French Revolution, pressure for recruits relaxed almost all of the existing controls. The goal was simply to fill the ranks with whatever men could be pressed into service. When the regular forces proved insufficient, the burden fell upon the provincial militia units. Army officers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 539–541.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Merilee S. Grindle Mexico’s Leaders: Their Education and Recruitment . By Camp Roderic A. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1980 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 259 . Cloth. $28.50 . Paper. $12.50 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 108–109.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Oakah L. Jones The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New Mexico . By Colligan John B. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1995 . Plates. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 159 pp. Cloth . $24.95 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2006
... recruited for the rubber campaign: “In the first place, the majority of the people who are signing up are very young, which has led to a veritable army of young whelps [ rapazolas ] barely past infancy who enlist and fill the migrant camps. They lack the endurance to carry out the difficult labor of rubber...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 409–410.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Peter G. Snow The Recruitment of Candidates in Mendoza Province, Argentina . By Strout Richard Robert . Chapel Hill , 1968 . University of North Carolina Press . The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science . Tables. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Eva Maria Mehl Abstract Between 1765 and 1811, Mexico City sent to Manila, Philippines, about 4,000 Mexicans, including recruits and vagrants who had been sentenced to military service or public works. At this time, the Spanish empire was undertaking a military overhaul in the Pacific. However...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 121–124.
Published: 01 February 1981
...James W. Wilkie Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Smith Peter H. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1979 . Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 384 . Cloth . $25.00 . Paper . $9.75...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 299–334.
Published: 01 May 2015
... how many fought, who these soldiers were, and the mechanisms by which the state recruited and disciplined them. My examination of wartime mobilization and desertion shows that the central government adopted a multipronged approach, ceding power to local actors to enact mobilization orders, negotiating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 423–454.
Published: 01 August 2010
... political recognition, arms, recruits, and financial backing for their emancipation movements. Countless others remained at home in Spanish America but allied themselves with Britain through their commercial ventures, their ideological affiliation, or their enthusiastic emulation of British institutions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 335–351.
Published: 01 August 1992
... will argue that opposition to broadening the base of recruitment into the national army after 1870 reflected the desire of “honorable” working poor to maintain their position apart from slaves and “undesirables.” To support this argument I will examine resistance to draft reform in the Quebra Quilos revolt...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 573–575.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., takes on this task by comparing slave recruitment by the Union army in the latter conflict and by the army of Brazil, his own country, during the Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870). The purpose of his study is “to understand how recruitment transformed society and government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (1): 126.
Published: 01 February 1980
... at the end of the eighteenth century. The size of the local white population, the incapacity of the troops recruited in England to survive their drinking of raw rum, and the need to hold Jamaica and the islands to the southeast, all dictated the recruitment of Africans into the British army, not as mere...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 516–517.
Published: 01 August 2014
... to the job by often fraudulent labor recruiters, first from Rio, then São Paulo, and later, as news of conditions made recruitment more difficult, from other parts of Brazil, as well as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Paraguay. As voluntary recruitment fell short and became more expensive, workers were rounded...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 439–474.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Peter M. Beattie Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The complaints, civil disobedience, rhetoric, and humor generated by nearly a century of army recruitment reforms in Brazil illuminate a conflictual transition in conceptions of honor, masculinity, penology, citizenship...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 356–357.
Published: 01 May 2000
...David Northrup Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 As African slavery was brought to an end in the nineteenth century, tropical plantations came to depend heavily upon indentured laborers. Over two million were recruited worldwide mostly from Asia, of whom 800,000 went to various...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 February 1981
... of instability among ordinary Mexicans as the tenure of the Porfiriato lengthened. 1 Because virtually all guards recruited during the thirty-year dictatorship were common people from the central part of the country, personnel records of the individual corpsmen offer the opportunity to study the nation’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 733–735.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The British occupation of Manila and Havana (1762–1764) was a singularly important and well-known catalyst for Spanish imperial reform. Eva Maria Mehl recasts this familiar narrative by focusing on the 4,000 or so military recruits who departed Acapulco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 November 1973
... Estudos Políticos . Map. Tables. Graphs. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. 94 . Paper. Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Two crucial aspects of any political system are the types of people recruited for powerful positions and how they are chosen. Is the selection process...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11683978.
Published: 30 December 2024
... by focusing on the intersection of (sexualized) violence, masculinity, and affect. The testimonies are shocking and gruesome. A rst recurring theme is la leva : the forced recruitment of poor and often racialized youth into the army, a common practice that has received little attention. At the bases...
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