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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 553–555.
Published: 01 August 2023
... introduction aims to contextualize the excerpt, its author, and his sources. Dille first offers a brief history of the spice trade in Europe—the production of spices in the Moluccas, the commercial domination of the production there by the Republic of Venice and its Arab intermediaries until the arrival...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 365–366.
Published: 01 May 1973
...Pál Kelemen Portuguese Plain Architecture: Between Spices and Diamonds, 1521-1706 . By Kubler George . Middletown, Connecticut , 1972 . Wesleyan University Press . Illustrations. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 315 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 317–318.
Published: 01 May 1973
... of chimerical schemes were hatched for the conquest of China and, after 1580, when the crowns of Spain and Portugal were united for a time, the elusive Spice Islands fell within Spain’s sphere of influence. But the Dutch and English put an end to the great Pacific scheme. The peoples of the Pacific fringes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 776–779.
Published: 01 November 1975
... Princesa (118°42′E) in Palawan, then the Portuguese were justified in their possession of Manaus and Mato Grosso and could claim the Guianas, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the Paraguay River and La Plata estuary. Since the most bitter of the disputes concerned the Spice Islands, it is appropriate that six...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 179.
Published: 01 February 1976
... to use it for little more than anecdotal relief or spice. As both a molder of public opinion and a reflection of it, the corrido offers a unique kind of historical grist. Hopefully this new edition of the volume which appeared originally in 1957 as a part of the Indiana University Humanities Series...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (4): 480–496.
Published: 01 November 1946
..., in Embassy Papers, 1913, IV. 61 On Api-il 30, 1919, the Woolsen Spice Company brought suit against the Columbia general announced the withdrawal of the suit.* 62 He would give no pledge, however, regarding any modification or non-enforce­ ment of the Norris Act.63 On the following day Ambassador Morgan...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (4): 595–608.
Published: 01 November 1965
... seven months after Elcano’s return to Spain is here cited verbatim. I have been given to understand by the Reverend Father fra Ivan [Gucetic, Ragusan ambassador] 21 that your Excellencies are not informed concerning the voyage to India, the islands discovered by the Spaniards where spices of all...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 697.
Published: 01 November 1980
.... Spain’s interest in the spice trade as well as in gold receives adequate treatment, and Parry notes the coincidence of Cortés’ departure from Veracruz the day after Magellan left Spain. Cortés, he asserts, realized that only by planned settlement and careful exploitation of resources could America yield...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 199.
Published: 01 February 1981
... will be irritated by a text spiced with too many misspellings, typos, grammatical and punctuation errors, and inappropriate constructions. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 570–571.
Published: 01 August 1981
... and spiced with a pinch of noblesse oblige ” (pp. 55-56). Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Money, Marines and Mission: Recent U. S.–Latin American Policy . By Steward Dick . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1980 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 280...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 729–730.
Published: 01 November 1973
... with the sadism and sexual exploitation on the part of the majority, but with due allowances made for the humanity of the minority, of the masters; the social usages, rituals, beliefs of the slaves; the habits and habitat of the Amerindians, observed with meticulous care, described with admirable clarity spiced...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 523–524.
Published: 01 August 1981
... to avoid superficial generalizations. Portugal’s imperial thrust was to acquire trading posts, not colonies, to control the spice trade. Brazil had little to offer but dyewood. Permanent colonies were necessary, nevertheless, to secure the land against French intruders. To support these colonies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (2): 310–311.
Published: 01 May 1974
... to attempt a westward voyage to the fabled Spice Islands was made while serving in the Indian Ocean area. Magellan may have been in correspondence at that time with a lifelong friend, Francisco Serrão. By 1511 Serrão had already reached these sought-after islands. Whatever the factors involved...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 342–343.
Published: 01 May 1969
... of the 425 pages of text. On one hand, the narrative is lucid, spiced with interesting historical anecdotes, and in most cases factually accurate enough to warrant a cautious endorsement for the nonspecialist. On the other hand, the professional will be made uneasy by the constant oversimplification...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 495–496.
Published: 01 August 1980
.... Not that life on the frontier was in any way brilliant; most of the paisanos were hardworking, poor, and illiterate, and life was no doubt prosaic for the most part. But scandals, revolts, and crimes were sufficiently numerous to spice up life occasionally. This study devotes considerable space to discussions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 159.
Published: 01 February 1984
... archival sources, Bauzon argues that Spain stayed first and foremost for economic and strategic reasons, to maintain an outpost for entrée to China, Japan, and the Spice Islands. This ultimate goal remained unreached, but the intention continued even while the church, bureaucrats, and private merchants...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 618–619.
Published: 01 August 1991
.... This varied from 2.5 percent to 200 percent, the most profitable trades being pepper and other spices. Administration of the Castilian military orders for the crown, a barter to secure payment of some debts, yielded from 50 percent to 15 percent annually, the rate declining with each renewal of the asiento...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 1982
... to 1841, and the causes for its failure within the Brazilian context that Flory’s study focuses. The author’s treatment of the subject is pioneering and sound, but his engagé stance, while it adds spice and fire to the work, is not always advantageous. We are, quite simply, not allowed to forget...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 678–679.
Published: 01 November 1968
.... Eric S. Thompson has written a lucid and erudite introduction, spiced with humor and proving that pomposity is not necessary in a discussion of Maya art. He also wrote the explanatory text on the page opposite each of the illustrations. In a few immediate sentences valuable information is conveyed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 307–308.
Published: 01 May 1978
... which I find mysterious. I do not believe that Hunt understands Levi-Strauss. In a “Theoretical Epilogue” she adds a hefty dollop of Marx, seasoned with the above spices plus Freud, Hegel, Parsons, Steward and some even rarer essences. I found the result indigestible. But it isn’t necessary. One can...