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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 445–468.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Steven Palmer Abstract The paper reassesses the model of scientific success on the periphery advanced in Nancy Leys Stepan’s analysis of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Beginnings of Brazilian Science by looking at a comparable, though ultimately less successful, bacteriological research facility...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Ruth Hill Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution . By Barrera-Osorio Antonio . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006 . Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 211 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright 2008...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 741–743.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nancy P. Appelbaum Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia . By Lina del Castillo . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 382 pp. Paper , $30.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 February 1970
... to development is also the theme of a series of essays edited by Kalman H. Silvert under the title The Social Reality of Scientific Myth . Three of the essays, under the heading “Postulations,” consider broad topics: “Science and Institutional Change,” “War, Science and Social Change,” and “Language...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1940) 20 (3): 480–484.
Published: 01 August 1940
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 1971
...Donald B. Cooper The Scientific Institutions of Latin America . By Hilton Ronald . Stanford , 1970 . California Institute of International Studies . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliographical Notes . Pp. xx , 748 , xxxvi . $12.00 . Copyright 1971 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 583–584.
Published: 01 November 1963
...S. A. Bayitch Guide to Latin American Scientific and Technical Periodicals. An Annotated List . Prepared by the Division of Science Development of the Pan American Union and the Centro de Documentación Científica y Técnica de México . Washington, D. C. , 1962 . Pan American Union...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 729–731.
Published: 01 November 1969
...C. Norman Guice For Science and National Glory. The Spanish Scientific Expedition to America, 1862-1866 . By Miller Robert Ryal . Norman , 1968 . University of Oklahoma Press . Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 194 . $5.95 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 702–703.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Aimee Dávila Hisey Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America . By Yarí Pérez Marín . Liverpool Latin American Studies . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2020 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi, 181 pp. Cloth, $130.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 525–527.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Luciana Brito [email protected] Manuel Querino (1851–1923): An Afro-Brazilian Pioneer in the Age of Scientific Racism . Edited by Sabrina Gledhill . Crediton, UK : Editora Funmilayo Publishing , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliographies. xxi , 196...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 736–738.
Published: 01 November 2024
... healthcare and syncretic medical discourse” developed as “some officials advanced vernacular medicine that incorporated scientific and traditional knowledge” (pp. 213–14). Traditional knowledge continued to evolve in response to community needs and state regulation. For their part, health officials were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1960) 40 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 1960
...Eugene K. Chamberlin Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Baja California. 1935-1956. A Bibliography of Historical, Geographical and Scientific Literature relating to the Peninsula of Baja California and to the Adjacent Islands in the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1952) 32 (1): 153–156.
Published: 01 February 1952
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 550–551.
Published: 01 August 1996
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz; Patricio Leyton Alvarado Abstract This article examines Friedrich Ristenpart's role in popularizing scientific knowledge as director of the National Astronomical Observatory in Santiago, Chile, from 1909 to 1911. Our analysis centers on four scientific texts that he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of science — in particular, the tendency to see science in its specific social context — with some of the most central concerns of Latin Americanists. For example, a key contribution of Stepan’s work is her analysis of scientific representations of human difference that shaped the creation and legitimating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 107–141.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Mark Carey Abstract During the 1930s, the German and Austrian Alpine Society sponsored three mountaineering-scientific expeditions to the Peruvian Andes, focusing especially on the Cordillera Blanca and adjacent valley known as the Callejón de Huaylas. They climbed mountains, conducted scientific...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 215–245.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and image. Through antiquity and the control of its remains, Porfirian elites sought to present Mexico as a modern, scientific, and sovereign nation with a sophisticated, ancient past. They based the government’s right to the artifacts on arguments that rested on appeals to nation and science. This article...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 283–318.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and the closing of European immigration that followed the world depression. Second, it underscores the role played by Italian and German cultural and scientific transnational networks in the reception and dissemination of medical ideas of race improvement. Based upon previously overlooked sources of the Prussian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 573–602.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Paul Ross Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Mexico’s Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease...
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