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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 February 1971
... by ecclesiastics, laymen and religious confraternities lay behind the concerted effort undertaken by the Spanish crown after 1750 to develop a system of poor relief designed to limit the distribution of alms to the deserving poor, to impose severe restrictions upon mendicity and to establish institutions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 678–679.
Published: 01 November 1968
... by taking all these factors into consideration can judgment of them be objective. Merle Greene with great technical skill and a fine artistic sensibility has made rubbings of various monuments, ranging from early stelae of Kaminaljuyú to reliefs at Uxmal and Chichén Itzá. Although the technique lends...
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in The Hurricane of San Ciriaco: Disaster, Politics, and Society in Puerto Rico, 1899–1901
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 1992
FIGURE 1: Planters’ Relief Program Distributions, by Area Source: Report of the Military Governor of Puerto Rico on Civil Affairs , Annual Reports of the War Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902), 56th Congress, 2d session, House document n. 2, pp. 738–41.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 767.
Published: 01 November 1989
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 May 1988
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 29–62.
Published: 01 February 2011
... and children’s domestic work, while increasingly distinct, mutually shaped each other. Children influenced employment opportunities and work arrangements for women, both mothers and childless women, and placed in vivid relief the tensions that pervaded women’s remunerated and unremunerated labors. Women’s work...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 467–499.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and frost based on incomplete or misleading regional climatic information strongly influenced the government's relief measures and thereby exacerbated the acute economic and political crises that led to the ouster of the dictator Porfirio Díaz. By analyzing these understudied climate-society dynamics...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 303–334.
Published: 01 August 1992
...FIGURE 1: Planters’ Relief Program Distributions, by Area Source: Report of the Military Governor of Puerto Rico on Civil Affairs , Annual Reports of the War Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902), 56th Congress, 2d session, House document n. 2, pp. 738–41. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2005
... reasons why, despite relief help, the Great Drought resulted in almost half a million deaths over the course of three years. The book is unified through the theme of the divergence between the elite representation and the reality of the Great Drought. But Greenfield also attempts to contrast...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 595–626.
Published: 01 November 2005
... hierarchal order. Indeed, quite the opposite: the relief of poverty could shore up a faltering colonial framework. The pobreza de solemnidad system responded to a failing economic and political system that gave rise to creole impoverishment. This relief measure waived normal legal fees and gave speedy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 375–400.
Published: 01 August 1992
... who saw immigration as the preferred alternative still stressed the importance of creating a more disciplined national worker. As with their proposals for work relief for retirantes , the elites proceeded from the assumption that left on their own, the masses preferred to idle about and live off...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 697–698.
Published: 01 November 1987
... interested in catastrophes and disasters and have often included Latin America in their studies. Their research has usually concentrated on the themes of predictability, relief organization and delivery, and how people cope with the stress of disaster. By and large, this literature has been ahistorical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 697–699.
Published: 01 November 1973
.... In his search for evidence, Foner has utilized a number of heretofore neglected sources. One example is the Clara Barton Papers (Library of Congress) which contain valuable information on the postwar relief program and on the conflict between the U.S. Army and the relief workers. The study begins...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 387–388.
Published: 01 August 1967
... the modern investigations began.) The analysis of Palenque sculpture by style and material and architectural connection is accompanied by a chronological reconstruction of four periods of the seventh and eighth centuries. The author properly emphasizes the relief sculptures with their controlled compositions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 204–205.
Published: 01 February 2012
... . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 This refreshing book invites us to remember how an earlier generation addressed the problems of economic depression. In this study of the Puerto Rico Emergency Relief Administration (PRERA), Manuel Rodríguez captures much of the enthusiasm of New Dealers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 May 2019
... “the Revolution's extraordinary humanitarian aid and disaster relief” (p. 1). Indeed, this is a story worth telling. The revolutionary government since the 1970s has diverted scarce economic resources not only to send troops to Africa but also to dispatch Cuban educators and medical personnel to many poor countries...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 744–745.
Published: 01 November 2007
... relief efforts in detail, as well as the politics behind efforts undertaken by the British government. His accounts of the emerging broad-based relief efforts undertaken by nongovernmental concerns are particularly illuminating. While every book includes points to quibble about, on the whole Mulcahy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 545–547.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of anthropogenic global warming, the idea of hurricanes as retribution for human actions has made an unexpected comeback. Changing expectations about the responsibilities of the state is also a significant thread across chapters. Disaster relief and recovery was largely the responsibility of affected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 535–536.
Published: 01 August 2011
... explores images of watery places and their meanings at Maya cities. Finally, Rex Koontz reconstructs cosmology and symbolism in the reliefs of El Tajín. Four chapters address aspects of the book’s theme directly. Joyce Marcus’s chapter on Monte Alban is the only chapter organized explicitly around...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 177–178.
Published: 01 February 1994
... seized the presidency in 1930, the dictator requested a mission to help with relief and reconstruction, and suggested Major Watson to be in charge. Although no mission was dispatched, Major Watson was sent for about a year as naval attache in the U.S. embassy to oversee U.S. relief efforts. Watson’s...
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