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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 281–282.
Published: 01 May 1963
...Carl B. Compton The Broken Spears. The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico . Edited and introduction by León-Portilla Miguel . Boston , 1962 . Beacon Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 168 . $5.00 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 February 1970
... 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 not learn definitely either the name of the first man who found gold...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 720.
Published: 01 November 1979
.... The translations of Sahagún in this volume are often quite different from those in The Broken Spears , but both versions have their merits. Serious students should of course use the multivolume Anderson-Dibble work, but this shorter version is perhaps best for undergraduates and the general public. Indian...
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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 (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 (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 (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
... with the utmost heroism. Time after time, Indian conscripts armed only with spears and machetes hurled themselves on Brazilian and Argentinean rifled muskets and Whitworth cannons. On May 24, 1867, for example, the battle of Tuyuty saw 11,000 such men cut down in a series of attacks that were only repelled after...
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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
... , the gauchos galloped after it, hamstringing as many cattle as they could with their facones , or medialunas— long reed spears shod with crescents of razor-sharp steel. * The author, who has been closely connected with Latin American affairs for many years, was decorated by the Argentine Government...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 321–337.
Published: 01 August 1967
...., 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 Diseases , 515. 25 Hernando Cortés, Five Letters (New York, 1962), 226...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (2): 209–243.
Published: 01 May 1988
... Trovillion, and Andrea Spears for their comments on earlier drafts; and Félix and María Masud, Shay Brown, and Andrea Spears for their painstaking tabulation of the statistical data. The Social Science Research Council and the Florida State University Foundation provided generous financial aid...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., the parents and family of the slave being punished would soon arrive at Torres’s house to challenge him. 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...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 287–323.
Published: 01 May 1975
... in the Socioeconomic Development of Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Albuquerque, 1973). 9 Miguel León Portilla, ed., Visión de los vencidos. Relaciones indígenas de la conquista , Biblioteca del estudiante universitario, 81 (México, 1959). Miguel León Portilla, ed., The Broken Spears. The Aztec Account...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2006
... (Summer 1985): 249 – 69. 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. Jonathan C. Brown (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997), 72 – 97. 22...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 387–414.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Isabel Moctezuma, the daughter of the last Mexica emperor, also held regional encomiendas as part of her patrimony and passed them 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...
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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 (2018) 98 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., and brandishing machetes 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 In 1881, the blood oath...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 423–456.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to face opposing forces—so much so that Colombian law by the end of the century prohibited 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...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 February 1982
... 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 of Michoacán, the royalist commanders could begin systematically to recover territory lost...
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