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Mi caballo, mi perro y mi rifle
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 459.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Ray F. Broussard Mi caballo, mi perro y mi rifle . By Romero J. Rubén . México , 1959 . 5th ed. Liberia de Manuel Porrúa, S. A . Pp. 208 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 In this, another novel of the Mexican Revolution, the story which never grows old...
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The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 758–759.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... In the first one, the commission and its initial strategy, the “medical rifle,” were spurred by governments and ranchers on both sides of the border, who were all interested in setting up a sanitary cordon that could guarantee the bilateral trade of cattle. In the next two stages, the opposition...
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The Paraguayan War. vol. 1, Causes and Early Conduct
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 374–375.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., and prisoners were regularly tortured or massacred. Great battles were fought with weapons ranging from flintlock muskets to modern breech-loading rifles that reinforced the lessons of the slaughter early on in the war—on September 22, 1866, for example, nine thousand Allied troops were killed or wounded...
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Firewater, Desire, and the Militiamen’s Christmas Eve in San Geroónimo, Baja Verapaz, 1892
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 239–276.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... Meany and Bennett had saved the liberal regime more than once, including supplying their forces with some one thousand rifles. Indeed, San Gerónimo became their property not for the 250,000 pesos specified in the contract, or the 111,000 pesos mentioned later, but to cancel the state’s debt of 5,000...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 796.
Published: 01 November 1981
... surrendered. After his surrender, Colonel Hand broke into the cabin and, eithering ignoring protestations that Córdova was a prisoner or not understanding them because of his lack of competence in Spanish, he proceeded to bash in Córdova’s head with a rifle butt. If Córdova was an active belligerent, Hand...
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The Arms of the Ypiranga
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 543–556.
Published: 01 August 1970
... elsewhere, sending agents to England and France to negotiate contracts and establish a steady flow of military supplies. 2 Other governmental representatives placed an order for twenty million rifle ball cartridges in Germany with the Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken and a duplicate order...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 354–355.
Published: 01 May 1989
... in which they are left by most general surveys of the period. Conventional military history is eschewed, but one learns what it was like to be a guerrillero in Upper Peru and even how many times, on average, one might have to fire a rifle per enemy killed. In short, this is not a comprehensive review...
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Indios, ejército y frontera
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 398–399.
Published: 01 May 1984
... system to the coming of the Remington rifle. No one, however, can question Viñas’s extensive research, erudition, and literary ability, which make his work a useful reading experience. This book, in a very limited edition of one thousand copies, is divided between a little more than a hundred pages...
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The Siege of the Alcázar
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (4): 455–456.
Published: 01 November 1966
... miliciamos faltering on the charge. Half-buried corpses sticking out of stones, a stethoscope used as a mine detector, a baby girl suddenly born in the dark at a moment when subterranean mines explode, hand-to-hand fighting, a tank with hooting klaxon, soldiers stumbling through the rubble to rifle pit...
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Land Reform in Mexico: 1910-1980
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 1987
... of these were not made definitive until the period of Lázaro Cárdenas. Nevertheless, Sanderson is quite accurate in asserting that this reform was clearly linked with political goals: at the time of the de la Huerta rebellion during Obregón’s presidency, land was distributed at the same time as rifles were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 November 1988
... imported from the United States. A childlike gold panner, in a photograph obviously not taken in Rio de Janeiro, stands in only a loincloth; what appear possibly to be leg irons lie behind his feet against the wall. Another image, of two bearded men carrying long rifles and dressed in white, desertlike...
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Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 601–603.
Published: 01 August 2016
... region to gather a small band of rebels armed with pipe bombs and rifles. Mexican troops trounced the group before it had even begun to fight. Such incidents reveal the visions and misadventures of the Cristero emigrants; at the same time, they highlight the vital role of the border for those who crossed...
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Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 378–380.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., or sporting implements like rifles, bows, and épée. Given all the historical research that we have into Latin America's relationship with modernity, the case studies of Latin American athletes like Torres should provide fantastic material to further investigate the inequalities and contradictions involved...
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Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala Under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982–1983
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 771–772.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and security would require total domination of the nation. As a result, the first months of the Ríos Montt government — under a campaign known officially as Victoria 82 and commonly as fusiles y frijoles (rifles and beans) — ushered in the highest body counts in Guatemala’s bloody 36-year civil war. Ríos...
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Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Testimonies, Icons
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 306–307.
Published: 01 May 2013
... their political commitments. Mraz shows that this social and historical upheaval changed the content of the images (that is, who and what was depicted), as “popular types” were replaced by “revolutionary types” of women posing with rifles and cartridge belts across their chests and charros (cowboys on haciendas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 452–462.
Published: 01 August 1965
... to order 30,000 to 40,000 rifles from Jamaica. 7 Shortly thereafter, Captain General Antonio González convened a Council of War, which in March requested additional artillery from the Viceroy of Peru for the defense of military installations on the Pacific coast. 8 In April, the Council asked...
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Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 739–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of choreographer, creating a famed paean to revolutionary fighting in the 1931 mass dance El ballet simbólico 30-30 (The symbolic ballet .30-30). Named for .30-30 rifles, this martial ballet subverted expectations of masculine bravura by recasting women as igniting the armed struggle. Then, after two men held...
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Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 741–743.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and human evil, wielding a machete and a rifle as well as an easel and a camera. With its emphasis on conflict, the travelogue also departs from contemporary romantic representations of the forest as sublime. Rather, Biard portrays the forest as a dynamic and unpredictable place, an indomitable terrain...
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The Conquest of the Desert: Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 719–721.
Published: 01 November 2021
... analysis of the narratives produced about the organized violence. She concludes that no sooner had the soldiers' repeating rifles cooled than the military, the state, and the Spanish-language press declared the “Indian Problem” resolved (p. 39). This collection of essays explores a seminal event...
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Conflict in the Southern Cone: The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute with Chile, 1870-1902
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the border. Worse still, Chilean squatters on the eastern slopes of the Andes collaborated with the Indians against the Argentine settlers and ranchers, and some Indian chiefs had connections with Chilean government officials. Remington rifles and a fierce military campaign by the Argentines killed over...
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