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They Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico

Robert C. Eidt
Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 306–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-52.2.306
Published: 01 May 1972
...Robert C. Eidt They Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico . By Sawatzky Harry Leonard . Foreword by Sauer Carl . Berkeley, California , 1971 . University of California Press . Map. Tables. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 387 . Cloth...
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Borderline Offerings: Tolderías and Mapmakers in the Eighteenth-Century Río de La Plata

Jeffrey A. Erbig, Jr.
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 445–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3601646
Published: 01 August 2016
... known as Charrúas and Minuanes appropriated imperial border-making efforts for their own purposes. As royal officials sought to materialize a border in lands that they did not effectively control, they solicited native agents' support. In response, Charrúas and Minuanes took up arms, crisscrossed...
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Erasing Las Yaguas: Shantytown Networks and Social Reform in the Cuban Revolution, 1944–1963

Jesse Horst
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 463–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8349862
Published: 01 August 2020
... has made virtually no mention of pre-1959 policies, many aspects of post-1959 slum clearance grew directly from earlier initiatives. These policies were shaped by two overlapping types of disputes: those about property, and those about poverty. Over time, officials sought to neutralize activism around...
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Consuming the Mexican Body: Gender, Race, and the Nation in Macho Tips , 1985–1989

Juan Carlos Mezo González
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 655–687.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8646943
Published: 01 November 2020
... homosexuality and appealed to the desires of gay middle classes who sought to consume the Mexican masculine body. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 42. Milton Robles, interview by author, Mexico City, 30 July 2019. 43. Aurelio Refugio Hidalgo de la Torre, “Editorial,” Macho Tips...
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The “Indians of Palmares”: Conquest, Insurrection, and Land in Northeast Brazil

Marc A. Hertzman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 423–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10591971
Published: 01 August 2023
... people help build the fugitive settlements of Palmares? I instead focus on the post-1695 period, when competing actors sought land in the interior regions that the settlements once occupied. Shaped by displacement and diaspora, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries some Indigenous people...
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The New Age of Andeans: Chronological Age, Indigenous Labor, and the Making of Spanish Colonial Rule

Alfredo Luis Escudero
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10216443
Published: 01 February 2023
...Alfredo Luis Escudero Abstract In the Andes from the beginning of the Spanish conquest, colonial administrators sought to develop efficient methods of labor extraction. The study of chronological age, Indigenous tribute, and censuses reveals an uncharted chapter of this process. This article...
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Militarizing Dollar Diplomacy in the Early Twentieth-Century Dominican Republic: Centralization and Resistance

Ellen D. Tillman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 269–297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2870788
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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The “Barbarous Game”: Entrudo and Its Critics in Rio de Janeiro, 1810s–1850s

Hendrik Kraay
Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 427–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3088584
Published: 01 August 2015
... various forms of water play that transgressed the boundaries between the sexes but tended to respect other social hierarchies. After independence, authorities and members of a self-proclaimed “civilized” elite sought to repress what they condemned as a “barbarous” game. These efforts obtained some success...
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A Patron of Progress: Juana Catarina Romero, the Nineteenth-Century Cacica of Tehuantepec

Francie R. Chassen-López
Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 393–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2008-330
Published: 01 August 2008
..., Romero sought to regulate and discipline Tehuantepec, hoping to create a more orderly, productive, and beautiful urban space. Through her influence on Tehuano dress and local fiestas, she attempted to bring local customs into line with the ideals of Porfirian modernization and mestizo identity. Her...
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico

Peter B. Villella
Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 633–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1416657
Published: 01 November 2011
... arena of early modern America, so different from the late medieval Iberia that gave rise to the discourse, necessarily destabilized and complicated limpieza’s meanings and modes of expression. This article explores a variety of ways by which indigenous elites in late colonial Mexico sought to take...
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Creole Anti-Communism: Labor, the Peruvian Communist Party, and Apra, 1930–1934

Paulo Drinot
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 703–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1727981
Published: 01 November 2012
... above. In Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challenge the Peruvian Communist Party’s claims to represent and lead workers. APRA’s anti-Communism grew out of Víctor Haya de la...
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Tourism, Environment, and Development on the Inca Trail

Keely Maxwell
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 143–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1470995
Published: 01 February 2012
... of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The transformation of the Inca Trail from overgrown path to global hiking destination began in the early twentieth century. Foreign and Peruvian scientific expeditions socially constructed the trail as natural and cultural heritage. State and corporate actors sought...
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The Revolution on Trial: Assassination, Christianity, and the Rule of Law in 1920s Mexico

Robert Weis
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 319–353.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3484197
Published: 01 May 2016
... the principles of the revolution. Although the Christian idioms presented by the prosecution support recent scholarly arguments regarding deist tendencies within revolutionary ideologies, this article points out that the government's emphasis on its spiritual conviction sought to bolster the claim...
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From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952–1969

Kevin A. Young
Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 95–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3727400
Published: 01 February 2017
...Kevin A. Young Abstract After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor...
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A Revolutionary Postmortem: Body, Memory, and History in Yucatán, Mexico, 1915–2015

Paul K. Eiss
Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 669–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7160358
Published: 01 November 2018
..., politicians, historians, and poets—whether admirers or detractors—repeatedly evoked his figure and his words as they celebrated, reviled, or sought to restore the Mexican Revolution and its legacies. This article takes the measure of Alvarado's political, corporeal, and textual powers over the century...
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Poder Negro in Revolutionary Cuba: Black Consciousness, Communism, and the Challenge of Solidarity

Lillian Guerra
Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 681–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7787175
Published: 01 November 2019
...Lillian Guerra Abstract This article analyzes the personal experiences of African American refugees in Cuba as well as the ways in which the Cuban government sought to mitigate and frequently repress the appeal of the movement of Black Power / poder negro to which Cubans might autonomously ascribe...
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Forjando Patrimonio : The Making of Archaeological Patrimony in Porfirian Mexico

Christina Bueno
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 215–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-133
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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From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Marcia Stephenson
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-089
Published: 01 February 2010
... of Andean camelids, the bezoar stone played a significant yet academically overlooked role in the social and economic history of modern Europe and Spanish America for its use as an antidote to poisons, and the stones constituted one of the most sought-after objects for the fashionable cabinets...
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Acting Inca: The Parameters of National Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia

E. Gabrielle Kuenzli
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 247–281.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-134
Published: 01 May 2010
... were shaped in part by the actions and political initiatives of the very “Indians” the intellectuals sought to categorize, define, and contain. Somewhat paradoxically, the national intellectuals and the local Aymara elite unwittingly collaborated in the construction of a preferred Indian identity...
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Abolition, Race, and the Politics of Gratitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 621–657.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2351656
Published: 01 November 2013
... intermediaries between popular subjects and the imperial state. Moral indebtedness was one racialized means by which various constituencies sought to craft or accommodate (in the case of authorities) a more inclusive political project that did not contradict the basis of imperial rule—even though it did alter...
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