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Hispanic American Historical Review (1945) 25 (4): 455–469.
Published: 01 November 1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 November 1995
..., and propellers. The result is a series of apuntes . But they are a rich mine of many kinds of data on paddle-wheel steamboats and related topics in the Guayaquil region. The book provides information on the names, dates, and histories of steamboat enterprises, including some details on the operations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 1975
... and for details on the actions of small units under fire, this one may have some value to readers interested in the war. It contains also an abundance of the amazing trivia so beloved of folklorists—for example, a man who survived being shot with five arrows, the horrible mutilations produced by a steamboat...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 May 1972
... taken place. McGreevey points out the key importance of the river steamboat in stimulating commercial tobacco production, barbed wire in facilitating cattle raising, and the railway in opening the coffee economy. These few cultural borrowings were of critical significance, yet even after...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 217–231.
Published: 01 May 1962
... for instructions when Adams transmitted a message to Congress nominating him and John Sergeant of Philadelphia as delegates to the Panama meeting. Anderson arrived in Cartagena on November 6, 1825, and waited more than two weeks before he learned that a steamboat was soon leaving from nearby Barancas...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 607–640.
Published: 01 November 2016
... reported and the reporting of those events. Ahead of the eagerly awaited access to breaking international news, the “steamboat telegraph” enjoyed a moment of prominence thanks to the Buenos Aires–Montevideo submarine cable inaugurated in 1866. Steamboats coming from Europe stopped in Montevideo before...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 February 1946
..., had contributed considerably to the success of a campaign he had been waging to interest American capital in financing the internal development of Paraguay and the inauguration of steamboat service on adjacent rivers. The exploitation of these resources, although now of primary concern to Hopkins, had...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (3): 463–477.
Published: 01 August 1971
.... Ortiz’ activities in New Orleans soon came to the attention of Spanish consul Diego Morphy. Writing to the Spanish commander at Nacogdoches on April 26, 1812, Morphy reported that Ortiz had left New Orleans on a steamboat for Natchez, carrying sealed papers written by Spanish rebels for the Mexican...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 605–629.
Published: 01 November 1976
... provincial export cargos directly onto foreign ships in the outer roads of Buenos Aires’ harbor. Foreign-made steamboats appeared on the Paraná and Uruguay rivers in the 1850s but carried little freight. Steam navigation of the era mainly facilitated passenger service and commercial correspondence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of the Atlantic world’s nineteenth-century modernization reached the island amazingly early. Macadamized roads appeared in 1818, only two years after John McAdam himself had first built them in Bristol and a dozen years before they were built in the United States. A year later, the first steamboat service...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (4): 483–510.
Published: 01 November 1963
... in 1837. 78 In 1825 the federal government discussed ways and means of attracting foreigners who had capital, know-how, and perhaps also a steamboat to develop river transportation into the interior agricultural regions. 79 Valle thought the land tenure system was the key to the stagnation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 283–311.
Published: 01 May 1996
... Bogotá nor Medellín enjoyed a direct rail link to the northern coast; paddle-wheeled steamboats on the Magdalena (most based in Barranquilla) were the principal form of transportation for both cargo and passengers 24 After the turn of the century, most of Colombias primary commodity, coffee, passed down...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 525–572.
Published: 01 August 1988
... by the soldiers accompanying him and taunted by bystanders. He was then taken to Fortaleza on the coastal steamboat Pernambuco and from there to Quixeramobim. 26 No sooner did he arrive than it was verified that his mother had died when he was a child, and that his wife was still living. The charges were...
