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Hispanic American Historical Review (1926) 6 (1-3): 9–20.
Published: 01 February 1926
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 August 1977
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (2): 209–210.
Published: 01 May 1946
...Dana G. Munro Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby. Reminiscences of California and Guatemala, 1849–1864 . Edited by Barker Charles Albro . [ Huntington Library Publications .] ( Los Angeles : Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press , 1945 . Pp. xxvi , 119 . Illustrations. $2.75...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1958) 38 (2): 316.
Published: 01 May 1958
...Joe B. Frantz With Beauregard in Mexico. The Mexican War Reminiscences of P. G. T. Beauregard . Edited by Williams T. Harry . Baton Rouge , 1956 . Louisiana State University Press . Illustrations. Appendix. Index . Pp. ix , 116 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 February 1969
... they continue to furnish much questionable data to unsuspecting researchers. Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is a more reliable source for those trying to learn how a handful of barbudos were able to seize absolute control of Cuba. Nevertheless, there is much of value...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 344–345.
Published: 01 May 1978
... not deal as exclusively with “contemporary Cuba” as its subtitle suggests. Most of the interviews ended rather abruptly almost a decade ago. The range of the reminiscences themselves, moreover, are uneven. The better part of Benedí’s ruminations, for example, do not go much beyond 1961 and much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 1987
... are grouped under the rubric “society and culture”; and 11 purport to present alternatives for the future. In design and perspective, the collection is reminiscent of El perfil de México, 1980 , a successful three-volume set published a decade ago by Siglo XXI. While a number of essays are without...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 2002
... grains for domestic consumption. Some continuities from previous times persisted, though. Studying inventories of the largest landowners in Buenos Aires around 1850, Juan Carlos Garavaglia finds a common investment pattern reminiscent of that of colonial times. It included not only estancias but also...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 464.
Published: 01 August 1964
... of which reflect the author’s reminiscences of a long visit to Spain. However, one of the essays, on the August 10, 1809, movement in Quito, is of some interest; and almost a third of the volume is dedicated to a biographical sketch of General Francisco Javier Salazar, one of the outstanding figures...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 276.
Published: 01 May 1964
... of reminiscences by one of the foremost of twentieth-century archaeologists in the Maya area. Thompson evokes the world of a generation ago, describing the difficult conditions under which digs were accomplished and contrasting them with the more developed facilities, especially in travel, of today. The book...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 557–558.
Published: 01 August 1978
... views of Ixta and Popo. Thus, while his short essay records the programs and struggles of the newly established cultural institutes, perhaps more interestingly, it affords Trueblood the opportunity to provide the reader with such random reminiscences of embassy life and personal recuerdos . ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 166–167.
Published: 01 February 1965
... to Isla de Mujeres and Cozumel. In a manner reminiscent of Richard Halliburton, Peissel has written an account of the human and natural obstacles which he encountered in his journey. Highlighting the text are his frequent discoveries of Maya ruins, many previously unknown. Only one site (Muyil...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 February 1966
... by which he lived.” It turns out that Cabeza de Vaca is the rare “good guy” among the Spanish conquistadores , the overwhelming majority of whom Terrell characterizes as unmitigated villains. La leyenda negra is uncritically revived in terms reminiscent of a sixteenth-century Dutch edition of Las Casas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 628.
Published: 01 August 1970
... of Weber’s theses he is using. The book is a stylistic horror—an outline with vague citations filling in the gaps. The topic sentences have been transformed into the overabundant boldface subtitles; important details are italicized. The conclusions are equally incredible, reminiscent of a third-rate...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 634–635.
Published: 01 November 1962
... with Central American history, this conclusion is obviously inadequate. In general the book tends to be verbose and repetitious. Many of the observations are reminiscent of Gilberto Freyre. There is the usual Latin American lack of an index. On the other hand, the author gives an extensive bibliography...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (2): 366–367.
Published: 01 May 1976
... recollections of his childhood in the 1920s and 1930s, Claribalte Passos’ tales probe the psychological make-up of the people he loved and admired and even some whom he feared. Only rarely do his reminiscences lapse into exaggerated sentimentalism. Passos conveys the inner fears, aspirations and pleasures...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 362–363.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of a book previously published in 1922 and 1953. The only new material in the present edition is a brief prologue by Dr. Leonidas Aguirre MacKay that contains some biographical data about the author, and a reverential and warmly personal reminiscence about Dr. Orrego Luco by his granddaughter. Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 185.
Published: 01 February 1977
... volume is a musician’s reminiscences of those decades, and of the European vogue of Argentina’s contribution to world popular culture, the tango. The central figure in this casual memoir is Manuel Pizarro, who first visited Paris in 1914, taught the young Italian Rudolph Valentino to dance the tango...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 February 1980
... Ramírez, who interviewed Abelardo Cuadra to fill in gaps and who arranged and edited the autobiographical letters and other reminiscences in a coherent whole. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 770–771.
Published: 01 November 1979
... by coauthors Charles Briggs and Marta Weigle, the edited texts of Brown’s manuscripts, and an appendix on the Writers’ Project in New Mexico, besides the photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. Like much of what was done by WPA writers, these materials are a mixed bag: reminiscences, local-color sketches...