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Remedios for Relationships: Social Precarity and Amatory Therapeutics in the Early Circum-Caribbean
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 183–212.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a range of relationship remedios (or cures) ranging from divination and prayers to spells and potions by interrogating early modern Spanish Inquisition records from Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Far from simple reflections of religious deviance, these trials show women searching within their relational...
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El caso Bohigas: Reacciones al secuestro infantil en el México de los años cuarenta
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 February 2019
... urbanización de la ciudad de México, el peligro se materializó en un grupo heterogéneo de sujetos riesgosos: los robachicos, imposibles de identificar a simple vista, pero depositarios de una serie de estereotipos vinculados al peligro, la otredad y la extranjería. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...
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Loyal Subjects at Empire's Edge: Hispanics in the Vision of a Belizean Colonial Nation, 1882–1898
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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 (1964) 44 (3): 341–374.
Published: 01 August 1964
... by the Instructions. The Instructions failed to specify how reports on rather complicated jurisdictions were to be divided or subdivided. No problems arose when a single official reported on a single corregimiento; he followed the Instructions, listed its dependencies and submitted a single or simple RG...
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The Cubeo. Indians of the Northwest Amazon
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 476.
Published: 01 August 1964
... 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 The Cubeo are a simple horticultural society located near the Río Vaupés (Uaupés) in the Colombian-Brazilian border area of the northwestern Amazon Basin. This excellent monograph by Irving Goldman, currently at Sarah Lawrence College, is one of the few detailed...
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Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 324–326.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kathleen Kole de Peralta The book benefits graduate students and researchers studying medicine in Latin America and the Mediterranean. The chapters progress naturally and balance both the theory behind pharmaceutical practices and their application in the lived world. Chapter 1 examines simples...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 May 1993
... and politicians is an exchange of support and legitimation for protection and “influence” (p. 116). This is no simple two-way street; for, as the author shows, political groups compete extensively to retain the aura of church sponsorship (vital for the Conservative party), to gain it (the Christian Democrats...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 203.
Published: 01 February 1969
... Press 1969 This is one of those pleasant books that are nice to give to a hostess interested in esoterica, but it is not really very illuminating. The main theme is the non-fastening functions of knots, especially as seen in ancient and non-Western European societies. Numerous simple, clear...
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Early Day Oil Tales of Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 553.
Published: 01 August 1968
... ), and “calenturas” ( paludismo ) . While Hamilton surveyed for international oil companies in Tehuantepec and in Huasteca, he was impressed deeply by the “simple, kindly Indian” folk, who were sincerely grateful for his amateur medical treatments. “Simple, industrious, friendly” Indians unspoiled by civilization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 382–383.
Published: 01 May 1984
... direct provisions emanating from the Peninsula. Punishment for fugitive Black slaves, for example, continued to include castration for males and an equivalent mutilation for females, despite royal prohibitions. The plan of the volumes is simple. Volume 1 has three parts: grouping 1, tasas y...
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Columbus
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 490–492.
Published: 01 August 1968
... failure to do more than sample the vast body of excellent peRíodical literature available. This interpretation is simple conjecture on the author’s part, resting on absolutely no evidence. It was mostly chance mixed with a little common sense that Columbus followed a latitude where the northeast...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of any importance in colonial Chiapas” (p. 77). As might be gathered from all the above statements, the Spanish colonial churches of Chiapas as presented in the illustrations and discussion in the text are indeed simple and unimposing. The dominant type of church in Chiapas is structurally no more...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 352–354.
Published: 01 May 1979
.... But the simple, or not so simple, use of a few numbers does not constitute a unifying theme. As a result, the articles in the Wilkie and Ruddle volume are entirely unrelated by topic and, in my view, by research methodology. To say that the papers are unrelated does not, however, imply that they individually...
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South Wind Ped. Our Hemisphere Crisis
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 329–330.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Robert Alexander South Wind Ped. Our Hemisphere Crisis . By Ray Philip A. . Chicago , 1962 . Henry Regnery Company . Appendix. Index . Pp. viii , 242 . $5.00 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 This book has a simple thesis to sell: that the only salvation...
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De oportunidades y retos: Los engranajes del comercio exterior de México, 1920–1947
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 579–580.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Press 2012 From the point of view of economic theory, the commercial policy of a country seems to be a simple matter: policy makers just need to decide if they want an open economy, a protected economy, or some combination between protection and free trade. Isabel Avella Alaminos’s book shows how...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (2): 305–306.
Published: 01 May 1974
..., and ideology reported in few pages. Generalizations must be frequent and simple. Sometimes they are too simple (e.g., “the greater the wealth available for exploitation, the poorer and more undeveloped the region today; and the poorer the region was as a colony, the richer and more developed it is today” [p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 365–366.
Published: 01 May 1973
... but the complication is simple, consisting always of paired themes and contrasts.” Three paragraphs later: “The cloister of Tomar is much more complicated than any Italian design of the same century. The rhythms are never simple or uniform” (pp. 20-21). The chapter ends: “The delight of the eye is further enhanced...
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Politics of Change in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 296–298.
Published: 01 May 1965
... of political science at the University of Caracas, in his chapter “No panacea for Latin America,” follows a well trodden path of geographic, racial, historical and economic differences to the unsurprising conclusion that there is no single or simple solution to Latin American problems. (This is demolishing...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 520–522.
Published: 01 August 1969
.... That prehistoric archaeology has come a long way in recent years is well shown by the ecological studies contained in the first volume. Both Kent Flannery in his study of animal remains and C. Earle Smith in his analysis of plant materials have gone beyond the simple identifications presented by earlier...
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Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (3): 574–576.
Published: 01 August 2007
... categories, separated out from the rest of society on the basis of their legal status as slaves or for the simple fact of belonging to socially subordinate groups. In different degrees, some chapters of the collection question such simplifications, bringing to light situations where actions and practices...
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