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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... In practice, absolutist sovereigns were not autocrats. They needed money to wage war and defend against predatory rivals, and had to exchange rent-generating privileges and monopolies in order to levy taxes and borrow. Irigoin and Grafe understate, however, the differences between fiscal relations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 367–418.
Published: 01 August 1998
..., annually earning 30 to 40 pesos in cash and goods, along with a ration of just under 10 fanegas of maize. A minority eked out a living as tenants, cultivating small rented plots on marginal lands and providing seasonal labor to the estate. Patriarchy was pivotal to the structure of hacienda...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 541–542.
Published: 01 August 1994
... The title of this work is misleading. Based on field research, the text deals only with low-rent and “self-help” housing in three capitals: Mexico, Santiago de Chile, and Caracas. This comparative, in-depth perspective, however, achieves the title’s implied goal, in that the three cities studied have made...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 February 1994
... of the land purchased. At least some of the sales enclosed lands occupied by peasant settlers as well. These peasant occupants now became estate tenants, obliged to pay rent to the new landowner or abandon their farms. 30 Nevertheless, the public land sales of 1890-91 had a minimal effect on Duaca’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 258–277.
Published: 01 May 1981
..., or as a source of timber and firewood. The cabildo also had the power to lease land for emergency agricultural purposes when the food supply of the city was deficient. 4 Under the administration and jurisdiction of this institution, some sections of the Caracas ejido were rented to private citizens...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 353–362.
Published: 01 May 2007
... that space is at a premium, and mid-nineteenth-century Lima was no different. As the wealthy moved to quieter and balmier neighborhoods beyond the city wall — Magdalena del Mar, for example — they often sold or rented their former town homes. Many of these older homes, often two stories high, were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 433–461.
Published: 01 August 1990
..., one 23 and the other 22, rented an apartment (or room or rooms). Conventional coding would consider these two as one household with the 22 year old, because he is listed first, as the head. This makes no good historical sense. Conventional coding technique overlooks many men and women, white...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 527–529.
Published: 01 August 2024
... to pay rents, was disputed between the Pacíficos from Icaiché and the Kruso'ob. Great Britain repeatedly emphasized its neutrality during the Caste War, but at the same time the colony in Belize remained the insurgents’ central source of ammunition and became a refuge for thousands of Indigenous and non...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 765–771.
Published: 01 August 2001
... mercantilist character. Late-colonial Buenos Aires produced little. Instead, it relied on Bolivian silver for most of its exports. Spanish policy prevented trade with foreign interlopers, rent-seeking merchants formed a tight-knit guild to restrict the entitlements to trade, and land titles came in “a myriad...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 February 2023
... owners responded to this. Slaves who wanted coartación were, after verbal agreements with their masters, exploited even more, rented out, and sometimes even prevented from earning extra money or transferred to other spaces (often rural). The purchase price of these slaves was sometimes set higher...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 181–209.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Sherry Johnson Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 It was October 1793, and one of His Majesty’s front-line troops in the “war against the inhabitants of the suburbs,” royal rent collector Francisco Xavier de Quijano, believed that he was in serious trouble. His immediate superior...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 675–705.
Published: 01 November 1984
... of the thousands of persons now dependent upon the institution. Even with those setbacks, the planters and the bureaucrats mustered sufficient resources in 1821 to thwart attempts to abolish the monopoly or to rent it to private contractors. They failed, however, to prevent substantial reforms in 1824. 4...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 203–231.
Published: 01 May 1987
...-Hispanic land terminology and concepts remained important in the seventeenth century, as notaries were still careful to refer to rented land as altepetlalli . 56 The production of income through land rental persisted, too, for the seventeenth century, like the preceding one, was a period of continuing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 657–695.
Published: 01 November 1987
... their property in Extremadura and particularly in Trujillo and its environs. They acquired land and rents mainly in Trujillo, Medellín, and other places within their jurisdiction (see map). Similarly, a large number of the juros they received were made payable from the royal alcabalas of Trujillo or turned...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 1989
... they had invested in slaves, they sought to recoup those losses, and derive a larger portion of their income, from higher and more efficiently collected rents. This brought increased pressure to bear on their tenants, and resulted in the rapid erosion of the lavradores’ former autonomy. Castro offers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 1–44.
Published: 01 February 2001
..., where the rich disguised themselves as poor people and the middle classes tried to appear as rich. In this context, immigrants were ridiculed for trying to make fortunes through work and thrift. Creoles, on the other hand, sought rents by trading favors with the political class. They obtained pensions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (4): 663–664.
Published: 01 November 1971
... not hold the land in fee simple and merely enjoyed its usufruct. Hence they could not sell these lands nor rent them to non-Indians. By the middle of the eighteenth century fundamental demographic changes had corroded the underpinnings of this policy, which was inspired in part by Habsburg paternalism...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 407–427.
Published: 01 August 1982
... hacienda employees, presumably had fewer reasons to challenge hacienda claims to land and water than persons who remained in corporate villages. In fact, tenants favored and perhaps incited haciendas’ usurpations of Indian lands. In the case of Zahuatlán, for example, the Dominicans wished to rent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 1–56.
Published: 01 February 1990
... expenditure weights: foodstuffs as a whole at 54.5 percent; clothing and home textiles at 11.5 percent; rents at 7.8 percent; and diverse goods and services at 26.2 percent. These weights represent general trends. They are, in fact, the averaged post facto consumption pattern of each and every Limeño. Only...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 1993
... or moderate counterparts. On the other hand, he finds that these same conservatives paid significantly less for housing in the Mexican capital than did moderates or radicals and, ironically, rented more often from private individuals than from the church. That radicals were more likely to come from the south...
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