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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 535–536.
Published: 01 August 1974
.... This is essentially descriptive history with few of the redeeming features that such an approach usually offers and, in the opinion of this reviewer, could easily have been presented in half the number of pages. Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Bermuda from Sail to Steam: The History...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1948) 28 (3): 335–359.
Published: 01 August 1948
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Published: 01 February 1999
Photo 1: Steam disinfection of clothing at the Santa Fe Street Station. Photo included in letter from C. C. Pierce to Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248. More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Eduardo Elena Abstract This article explores the social aspects of steam-age expansionism in Argentina by illuminating two groups often overlooked in standard histories of capitalist investment: the European investors who supplied the funds and the local workers who made capital projects realities...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 423–454.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., inventions, and practices such as the Lancasterian system of monitorial education, trial by jury, freedom of the press laws, steam engines, and mining technology. This generation of independence leaders carried on a purposeful correspondence with famous British figures such as abolitionist William...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Frank Safford The discussion of technical details makes clear why steam-powered paddle-wheel boats competed with difficulty against diesel-powered propeller-driven craft. The combined weight of steam engines, fuel, water, and paddles was roughly six times that of diesel engines, fuel...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (4): 591–594.
Published: 01 November 1965
... free trade. 12 After passing the Chamber with little difficulty, the proposal encountered several delays and did not become law until January, 1851. It permitted foreigners to participate in the nation’s coastal trade for five years. The law also conceded the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, or any...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 August 2006
... about the transatlantic voyages; the first group evidently went by sail, the second by steam, some on an early Lusitania . The shift from sail to steam was well underway on the North Atlantic run but not yet to South America. But these are minor omissions. The author notes that many Europeans...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 February 2020
... their agonies become subsumed by the focus on enslavers' insatiable drive for profits. Advances in wind- and steam-driven ship designs seemingly increased slavers' profits and captives' miseries, with Marques explaining that the steamer Cicerón carried “more than a thousand captives” (p. 219). How did...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 81–82.
Published: 01 February 1946
... Pacific Steam Navigation Company. The coming of steam craft gave renewed importance to Magellan s discovery. The little schooner Ancud was especially constructed to perform this act of possession. Her commander John Williams (or Guillermos ) captain of the port that gave the new war vessel its name...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 80–81.
Published: 01 February 1946
... by the prospective success of the newly organized Pacific Steam Navigation Company. The coming of steam craft gave renewed importance to Magellan s discovery. The little schooner Ancud was especially constructed to perform this ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 217–231.
Published: 01 May 1962
... of the Steam Boat from Barranquilla & then we must wait I know not how long for its departure. The houses here are filled with English & others going to Bogotá. Mr. Senator, Genl., Commodore Padilla 5 goes this morning in a champan 6 with Commodore [John] Daniels and others. November 27...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 303.
Published: 01 May 1967
..., and Duke. Whether recreating the world of his boyhood or blowing off steam on his favorite topics of argument, Rippy is good-natured and full of anecdotes. His many students will have no difficulty remembering the genial professor with the easy laugh and the rolling gait. Newcomers to the cloistered life...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 286–287.
Published: 01 May 1962
... full steam. This book should be of interest to agrarian reform scholars (the new breed of experts). The authors (to be sure, leftists) have some thoughtful and some absurd ideas. And they have shown how fantastically ridiculous the implementation by underpaid bureaucrats of the AR can become...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 519–520.
Published: 01 August 1994
... the relative importance of the Cuban rebel forces or the U.S. troops. Nor does it analyze in any depth Admiral Pascual Cervera’s decision to steam out of Santiago Bay toward certain destruction by the U. S. Navy. Once the U. S. forces had taken the heights overlooking the bay, of course, Cervera had only...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 603–604.
Published: 01 August 1969
... Orleans, but extended throughout coastal Texas with lines to Havana and Veracruz. From his entry into the steam-packet service in the 1830s until his death in 1878, Morgan played a preponderant role in the development of Southern transportation. Attuned to changing business and technological conditions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 February 1987
... of a society or the level of its development on the basis of its energy consumption, the work distinguishes three broad stages of energy usage in Colombian history: the wood era (1500-1806), the transitional era—steam, bagasse, kerosene or other oils, charcoal, etc. (1806-90), and the modern era—electricity...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 February 1975
..., and Yanacancha of three Cornish steam engines. This crucial technical innovation, by enabling miners to pump water up to the level of the Yanacancha socavón , granted them access for the first time to the rich sulphide ores—the pavonados and polvorillas— lying beneath the surface deposits of pacos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 February 1994
... This study carefully dissects a critical but understudied phase of Catalonia’s industrial development by focusing on the cotton industry from the establishment of calico printing to the first steam-powered factory. It was during this period that the industry made the transition from commercial to industrial...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 February 1994
... in the process. In that same series of wars, Spanish power was ruined, setting the stage for the independence of Spain’s American colonies as well. In the new world order that emerged between the nineteenth century and the present, steam-powered ships and massive transatlantic migration and trade reinforced...