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...Robert W. Randall The Mexican Salt Industry, 1560-1980: A Study in Change . By Ewald Ursula . New York : Gustav Fischer Verlag , 1985 . Tables. Notes. Sources. Figures. Appendixes. Index. Maps . Pp. 480 . Paper. Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 From the 1840s...

...Jeremy A. Sabloff This book is a major contribution to Maya studies. While scholars often have asserted that the exchange of salt was an important factor in the development of ancient Maya civilization, until now such claims have remained unsubstantiated. Andrews, in this revised version of his...

...Maurice P. Brungardt Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821–1900 . By Rosenthal Joshua M. . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Pedro Jimenez Cantisano Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930: How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table . By Maria-Aparecida Lopes . Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas . New York : Routledge , 2022 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes...

... and the countryside. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 As Madero’s land reclamation works got under way, thousands of campesinos whose principal means of subsistence derived from lake products inhabited the Texcoco area. 3 Communities along the edge of the lake relied on economies of salt...

... for pastoral goods. Argentine salted beef (carne salada) proved a cheap protein diet for plantation slaves. 10 Expanding international markets enabled porteños to overcome their colonial dependence on silver exports. Throughout the nineteenth century, Argentina expanded trade in a variety of pastoral...

...N. P. T. Rules of the Aztec Language: A Translation . By Anderson Arthur J. O. . Salt Lake City , 1973 . University of Utah Press . Tables . Pp. viii , 114 . Paper. Grammatical Examples, Exercises, & Review . By Anderson Arthur J. O. . Salt Lake City , 1973...

...B. Carmon Hardy Ordeal in Mexico. Tales of Danger and Hardship Collected from Mormon Colonists . Retold by Young Karl E. . Salt Lake City , 1968 . Deseret Book Company . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 265 . $1.95 . This said, it is important to acknowledge...

... an expedition seeking salt to the south of Buenos Aires reported a vast number of “aucás” moving large herds of cattle and horses toward Chile. 25 This removal of livestock from the plains was made a matter of official record in 1710 by the Cabildo of Buenos Aires. 26 By 1725 the Araucanians were...

...John C. Super Preliminary Survey of the Mexican Collection . By Cottler Susan M. , Haigh Roger M. , and Weathers Shirley A. . Salt Lake City , 1978 . University of Utah Press . Maps. Illustrations . Pp. xlvii , 163 . Paper. $12.00 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University...

... by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and then given a warm reception by the civic organizations of the great metropolis. Following brief initial visits to the Centennial City and the National Capital, came the long transcontinental trek via Chicago and Salt Lake to San Francisco and return to the east coast...

..., dehydration as a cause of death on the Middle Passage, salt retention as an essential for survival on that passage, and finally the relationship between abolition and racism in Britain and France. The piece on the Dutch slave trade by J. Postma touches on Spanish America briefly but still more than any other...

... encampments of Matthew Brady less than 20 years later! To be sure, the Mexican mountains and foliage afforded exoticism not present in the Civil War. Nevertheless, the heroics must be taken with a grain of salt, and anyone with the slightest knowledge of Zachary Taylor can only laugh helplessly...