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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 281–282.
Published: 01 May 1963
... empathically with the scribe who wrote: “Broken spears lie in the roads; we have torn our hair in grief. The houses are roofless now, and their walls are red with blood.” The Aztec glory was gone. The native accounts contained in this book do not disagree in general with the history of the Conquest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 February 1970
... discovered gold near Punta Arenas before 1867, probably at the Río de las Minas. It is said that its existence on the east coast of Patagonia and on the island of Chiloe was known at about the same time. John R. Spears, an American journalist, noted that it was “at the beginning a very hazy story. I could...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 720.
Published: 01 November 1979
...) was vigorous and rich in its diversity. The versions we read in English obviously owe much to the translators, who, at their best, are poets. Indian accounts have been handily available to readers of English for many years in The Broken Spears , edited by Miguel León-Portilla. Superbly translated...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 626–627.
Published: 01 November 1967
... the big problems of life and death, she enjoyed the excitement associated with skin diving, spear fishing (including man-eating sharks and barracudas), a smuggling trip, and chicha feasts. The book is not a serious anthropological study, and there are a few minor errors. Probably one should let...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 568–569.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Russell W. Ramsey The historian who would evaluate Manuel Noriega as a powerful, nationalist, corrupt meglomaniac, or as a Cold War opportunist, can employ Pearcy’s revisionist paradigm to good stead. Pearcy’s linking of isthmian social forces in the 1930s to the police institution as spear...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 298–299.
Published: 01 May 2008
... on the letter; Martin Davies, on the printer Pere Posa; and Anthony Payne and Katherine Spears, on the strategies Quaritch used to persuade U.S. collectors of Americana to buy the letter from him in the early 1890s. This is a marvelous contribution to the history of both early modern Spanish print culture...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 156–157.
Published: 01 February 2001
... of indigenous-language documents, they are extraordinarily rich as ethnohistorical sources. The editors view this edition as analogous to The Broken Spears , the well-known compilation of Nahua accounts of the Spanish conquest, edited by Miguel León-Portilla, in providing access to hard-to-hear indigenous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 374–375.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... If the war could be explained solely in terms of the posturing of Solano López, this would not be an issue. However, this is not the case, for the dictator’s forces fought with the utmost heroism. Time after time, Indian conscripts armed only with spears and machetes hurled themselves on Brazilian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 February 2000
... narrowly focused on labor institutions and labor-state relations. Several authors in this volume show their debt to this original notion of workers’ control by examining workers’ responses, at the shop floor level, to rationalization. In an essay on U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico, Andrea Spears details...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 191–198.
Published: 01 May 1962
... as many cattle as they could with their facones , or medialunas— long reed spears shod with crescents of razor-sharp steel. When they tired of this cruel business, they stopped for a smoke and a chance to squat on their heels in a circle and pass the maté from hand to hand. Rested, they attacked...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 321–337.
Published: 01 August 1967
...; The Annals of the Calcchiquels and Title of the Lords of Totonicapán (Norman, Okla., 1953), 115-116; Bedson, Virus , 155; Díaz del Castillo, Chronicles, 289; Miguel León-Portilla (ed.), The Broken Spears. The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston, 1962), 132; Top, Communicable and Infectious...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... He also recounted that he constantly received threats from the slaves, who possessed spears for hunting and who said “if I punished them they would kill me with their spears.” Finally, Torres noted that he was particularly bothered because they “have organized dances in my house without my permission...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 209–243.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Rodney D. Anderson * The author would like to thank Mort Winsberg for his technical assistance on the Index of Dissimilarity; Philippa Levine, Marti Trovillion, and Andrea Spears for their comments on earlier drafts; and Félix and María Masud, Shay Brown, and Andrea Spears...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 287–323.
Published: 01 May 1975
...., The Broken Spears. The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico , trans. Lysander Kemp (Boston, 1962). Miguel León Portilla, ed., El reverso de la conquista. Relaciones aztecas, mayas e incas (México, 1964). 8 Ángel M. Garibay Rintana, Historia de la literatura náhuatl , 2 vols. (México, 1953-1954...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in Blumenthal, “The Economic Good Neighbor.” 22 For a brief overview, see OIAA, History of the Office , 25 – 40. 23 For a discussion from a labor perspective, see Andrea Spears, “Rehabilitating Workers: The U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico,” in Worker’s Control in Latin America, 1930 – 1979 , ed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 783–811.
Published: 01 November 2000
... vest and helmet, holding in his hand a spear (removed from the ship), when he fired for the first time. The episode was repeated several times throughout the entire poem. 32 Caramuru formed an excellent interethnic friendship with the “good and just” Indian Gupeva, and assisted him in combating...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 387–414.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on to her heirs after her death in 1550. 10 As in most parts of New Spain, paper battles followed sword and spear. The crown periodically flexed its authority, by transferring communities and the labor of Indigenous people from one encomendero/a to another (or claiming them for itself), and encomenderos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 August 2018
... and handmade spears. Unfurling Chinese banners, they were accompanied by musicians playing Chinese flutes and cymbals. 65 These actions directly echoed practices by sworn brotherhoods and guerrilla militias on all sides of the Taiping Rebellion. 66 The oath in Lurín directly drew on Chinese men's...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 February 1982
...; and (b) from the west with troops from Nueva Galicia to advance from Colima and Zapotlán to Sayula, Jiquilpan, and Los Reyes, and southward to Uruapan and Apatzingán in the tierra caliente , where Morelos’s second-in-command, Matamoros, had operated. Once these spears had been driven into two sides...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 423–456.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the importation of machetes in times of civil unrest. 101 María Martínez de Nisser, who left a written record of her experience in the civil war of 1840, registers that “spears, machetes, and a few firearms” were given to the troops in order to prevent the departure of ministeriales , or those who supported...
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