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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 455–491.
Published: 01 August 2008
... matriculate “girls issuing from slave families, freed by the Free Womb Law.” It also made explicit reference to the admission of “daughters of the poor,” independent of prior schooling or color, highlighting the clientele the school sought to serve. In the words of Father Siqueira in a letter to Princess...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 226–250.
Published: 01 May 1975
.... Career officers simply could not understand this mentality, particularly since so many men seemed to prefer a life of abject poverty—badly dressed, poorly fed, and without adequate employment—rather than to serve the king. Even those who considered themselves to be Spaniards and who had families, homes...
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Published: 01 February 2004
Figure 19 The youngest sons frame this urban family; their erect pose and fedoras serve as a counterpoint to the peasant hats and hunched shoulders of the boys in figure 6 . More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2011
... teaching, and the extent of prominent letrado relatives serving audiencias, chancellories, and councils. By 1808 these differences had largely disappeared and a much more homogenous corps of ministers served on the tribunals. The changes in background facilitated the incorporation into the Spanish courts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 547–583.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Southern Cone dictatorships. The trajectories of the secretariats followed the Chilean regime’s political evolution, as they served different goals and strategies and changed course as the government developed a more clearly defined political project, along with policies to carry such a project out...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2014
... into Latin American state formation by focusing attention on the political and economic interests served or undermined by these two systems of administration. In Venezuela, advocates of fiscal modernity sought to enact this transition to modernize the economy and to maximize revenue in support of state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 591–625.
Published: 01 November 2010
... vadios (vagrants or idlers). Other artists rejected malandragem or only embraced it selectively, instead preferring a more toned-down “professional” look and demeanor meant to secure dignity and respect for themselves, their music, and the communities for which they served as figureheads. Eduardo das...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 451–486.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and civil conflict, and the active participation of the region in the construction of the state beginning in the 1820s. Indigenous leaders who also served as government officials pressed for institutionalized recognition of indigenous rights. That pressure eventually led to the acceptance of their claims...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 623–654.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and marriage. Godparents, especially women, often married within three years of the first time they were selected as baptismal sponsors. Serving as a godparent for a child born to at least one slave parent prepared adolescents for adult responsibilities. In agreeing to accept the spiritual and moral...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2023
... for religious women ( mamaconas ) who served in temple complexes and oversaw the gendered training of chosen girls ( acllas ) in other enclosures. New details on women's enclosures appeared at the turn of the seventeenth century, including the first accounts of Christian men of Andean descent. The Inca...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 303–330.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and slave populations, and reaffirm the principles of monarchical rule and social inequality. Particularly important in the symbolism of the victory celebrations was Ana Néri, an upper-class widow and mother from Bahia who served as a nurse in Paraguay. Publicly embraced as the “ mãe dos brasileiros...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of loyalty served to simplify the complex reality of an often-discordant multiethnic society into a simple binary of loyalty versus disloyalty that determined the Britishness of the colony's subjects and provided beleaguered colonial officials with the vehicle for counteracting the dominance...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 269–297.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Ellen D. Tillman Abstract In the early 1900s, the US government experimented with what they saw as a progressive style of influence in the Dominican Republic. While the Roosevelt and Taft administrations sought alternatives to armed intervention, US officers serving as diplomats pushed for more...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2013
... spirituality suppressed activities there after 1745 because they saw the devotion as excessively Indian and Baroque. The shrine has served as a barometer of eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms even though its story has not been fully told. This article explores the politics of patronage in the years after...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 643–672.
Published: 01 November 2022
... leading members of African descent. I further show that it served as the focal point for the development of the PCC's antiracist stance, which by the end of the decade had made it a leading proponent of equality. Self-determination was integral to that transformation, which reshaped the party's...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
...—sex workers. The experiments served the purposes of the Guatemalan Revolution (1944–54), a democratizing moment when doctors and political leaders aimed to spur national regeneration. This essay argues that Guatemala's activist state was a critical enabling factor granting US researchers access...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 75–108.
Published: 01 February 2010
...—concepts that researchers have identified as key in Peronist ideology—through a new focus on food. An increase in per capita beef consumption, beyond serving as a symbol of popular well-being, undermined the images of Argentina as an export economy subservient to foreign capitalism. By favoring internal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 195–232.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and mapping their activity demonstrates how Andean diplomacy, mobility, politics, and history made the conquistadores' survival in Cajamarca—and subsequent advance to Cuzco—possible. It also presents glimpses into how and why Andeans made the decisions they did and serves as a useful reminder...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 1982
..., led to a steady erosion of royal authority during the seventeenth-century imperial crisis. 6 Table I: Treasury Debts Accumulated by Royal Officials Serving in the Caja of Lima, 1620-79. Treasury official Years of service Debts in pesos de ocho Cristóbal de Ulloa 1620-25 750...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 667–696.
Published: 01 November 1986
... was “noble,” which in America, according to Marchena, signified a man at the apex of the social strata. He discovered that in 1750, 7 percent of the officers serving in the Indies were designated “nobles,” while from 1770 to 1810, approximately 50 percent were. Not only was there an increasingly larger...