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Maps and the Teaching of Latin American History
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Jordana Dym; Karl Offen Abstract Historical maps deserve a place in the college classroom as primary sources. Since the 1980s, scholarship has shown how maps can be analyzed and interpreted to reveal something not only about the peoples, spaces, and times they portray but also about the societies...
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An Interview with Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (2): 189–202.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of southern Spain. The conversation took place at Dr. Domínguez Ortiz’s apartment in Granada on May 24, 1984. PETER BAKEWELL: Dr. Domínguez Ortiz, could you begin by telling us something of your family and your childhood in Seville? ANTONIO DOMÍNGUEZ ORTIZ: Yes. I spent my life in Seville from...
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Peru 1965: Notes on a Guerrilla Experience
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 228–229.
Published: 01 February 1971
... University Press 1971 Since González Prada virtually everyone has talked about the Indian in Peru, but almost no one has done anything about the Indian. Outside of Peru, in the early conquest period, some Spaniards did something about the Indian. As Lewis Hanke and others have pointed out...
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Dollars and Dictators: A Guide to Central America Transnational Corporations and Caribbean Inequalities
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 788–789.
Published: 01 November 1983
... in Guatemala, and the North Americans’ predictable intervention have raised Central America and the Caribbean from anonymity. Outsiders have rushed to the area with advice that, unfortunately, suffers from an ignorance built during decades of neglect. Even had they wished to learn something of the region...
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The Möbius Strip: A Spatial History of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (3): 588–589.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... Consequently, population densities were higher in the north; this, combined with the proximity of markets in Taxco, Cuernavaca, and Mexico City, drove up relative land rents in the north. By 1750, this process had reached something of equilibrium, and with it, effected a transition from ranching to agriculture...
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Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 374–376.
Published: 01 May 2015
... reflection on such spaces. How to make a history of something that should not exist and was doomed to disappear with the inexorable evolution of development? How to think about the past of something that has no future? For decades, this kind of presentism has been reproduced in relation to slums (p. 50...
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Life and Politics at the Royal Court of Aguateca: Artifacts, Analytical Data, and Synthesis
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Sarah E. Jackson Indeed, part of the power of this volume hinges on a characterization opposite to that with which I began: despite its elite finds and occupants, there is something powerfully, beautifully ordinary about Aguateca. At this site we can access small details of ancient lives...
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Thirteen Masterpieces of Mexican Archaeology
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 788.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Carroll L. Riley The present volume was presumably reprinted because of international interest in Mexico’s splendid new Museum of Anthropology which opened a decade ago. Thirteen Masterpieces would have been enhanced in value had a new introduction been added telling something of the Museum...
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Journey into Darkness
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 February 1966
... another account of the North American wanderings of The Great Pedestrian, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, unless the narrator has something new to offer. In this connection Terrell asserts that “. . . there is something that historians generally seem to have overlooked in writing about him. It is the creed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 447.
Published: 01 August 1964
... of this first of a projected five-volume study of the economic plants and animals of tropical America by Victor Manuel Patiño is something of a landmark in Latin American agricultural history. Patiño, a Colombian agronomist and former Guggenheim Fellow, has spent the past fifteen years gathering material...
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Hernán Cortés
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (4): 888–889.
Published: 01 November 1991
... more interesting book: something like the intellectual genealogy of those rasgos de nuestra vida.” The book begins with two fragmentary and largely superfluous chapters, one on preconquest Mexico, the other on contemporary Spanish culture. It ends with a detailed account of the battle over Cortés’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 461.
Published: 01 August 1963
... something written or something painted and can be applied to any of the group of native Mexican pictorial documents generally known as codices. The European tradition in the study of these materials, which received its major impetus under Eduard Seler in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
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Religion in Latin American Life and Literature
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 798–799.
Published: 01 November 1981
... these criticisms, the book has something to offer a wide variety of readers. The several articles on the growth of Protestantism in Latin America are highly informative, although no one offers a strongly persuasive explanation as to why it has made substantial inroads in some areas and not in others. Likewise...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 505–506.
Published: 01 August 1978
..., “The Probanzas de servicio as Historical Sources;” John Franklin Jameson’s views on the “History of Spain in America;” Pal Kelemen, “Something Subjective, Something Substantial on Spanish American Colonial Painting;” Alfredo A. Roggiano, “Instalación del barroco hispánico en América: Bernardo de Balbuena...
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Los libros del conquistador
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 February 1981
..., humanistic, literary, or something else. The various categories and lists can then be compared for similarities and differences from time to time and place to place. Leonard’s work has been universally recognized for its combination of literary and historical perspectives. It proves beyond question the easy...
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Correspondence
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 415–417.
Published: 01 May 1975
... in his attempt to discredit the book. Although his treatment provides little knowledge of its contents and his spleen is excessive, I am not entirely displeased. Coming from someone of his political bent, his effort is something of a tribute to the book’s modest contribution toward a critical appraisal...
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Cuba and Castro
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 462–463.
Published: 01 August 1962
... Cuba January 1, 1959, Miss Casuso promptly assumed command of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. She established order out of chaos and provided for the return of Cuban exiles to Havana. Her own return, however was something less than triumphal. She had to wait two days at Castro’s headquarters...
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Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 611–612.
Published: 01 August 1988
... avers that the usual explanations “often seem incomplete because there is usually something in the background sensed but not fully brought forth, a hint of chambers beyond chambers. . . . [T]he missing element in the explanation often seems to be an understanding of the motivation and conduct...
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The Chilean Political Process
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1991
...: the “enclaves” include the Pinochet elite export model, the armed forces (with Pinochet as commander), the supreme and lesser courts, the head of the central bank, and most of the civil bureaucracy. Something more than an enclave, something less than a military regime, this electoral-authoritarian hybrid begs...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 471.
Published: 01 August 1995
.... Something similar occurs in Cristobal Kay’s rather more temperate Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment (1989). Here we have a sad confirmation of a version of Gresham’s law: inferior analysis drives out the good. Semo’s study first appeared in 1973, and this translation makes...
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