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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 519–531.
Published: 01 November 1967
... with the rise of Diego Portales to power and the promulgation of the Constitution of 1833. Only then did Chile become interested in her boundaries. During the 1830s Chilean interest in the Strait of Magellan was aroused because of English activity there. Although the British government never officially...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Mariano Ben Plotkin The Doubtful Strait/El estrecho dudoso . By Cardenal Ernesto . Translated by Lyons John . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1995 . Glossary , xxv , 189 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Paper , $12.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1934) 14 (2): 238–241.
Published: 01 May 1934
...James Alexander Robertson Copyright 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca . By Wagner Henry R. . ( Santa Ana, California : Fine Arts Press , 1933 . Pp. v , 324 . Maps, Index.) Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 324–326.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Mauricio Onetto Pavez Straits is an important contribution, particularly for orderly presenting data and facts that others had presented in a scattered manner. However, the book is less successful in analyzing why the expedition is still used to think about the future. It is true...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 271–305.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Straits. Situating Cuba in hemispheric perspective, I propose that secrecy itself was at issue in the widespread and conjoined preoccupation with ideology and sexuality. This turned the closet, on the one hand, and coming out, on the other, into all-purpose, politically charged signifiers in Cuban culture...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 414–415.
Published: 01 May 1971
...Robert D. Talbott The author is a member of a prominent family of the Strait area and was reared there. His personal ties with the region not only gave him an interest in the area but also a familiarity with its lore, its history, and the families who helped to make that history. In addition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 November 1946
... that scholarship and research have not died out in Spain, despite the civil war, the world war, and the troubled period we are now in. The voyages for which texts are printed are those of Alonso de Camargo, sent by the bishop of Plasencia to the Straits of Magellan in 1539; Rodriguez Cabrillo, in 1542, up...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (1): 132.
Published: 01 February 1979
... exults the author’s affection for his beloved Magallanes. In well-written prose, he presents the story of the Straits of Magellan from the time Ferdinand Magellan made his extraordinary contribution to the expansion of Europe in the sixteenth century. We witness a parade of explorers, filibusters...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 124–126.
Published: 01 February 1977
... well provisioned, and on heading south he ran into the first of the storms of which he wrote “. . . in deede I thincke to be such as worser mighte not be indewred.” As he set out rather too late in the season for favorable weather to cross the Straits of Magellan, he added another chapter to the record...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 482–484.
Published: 01 August 1965
..., directions, and weather reports, but sometimes departs from these routine matters to give interesting details about the places visited. Hispanists will find their interest represented by Byron’s activities in the Falklands and Patagonia and his partial chart of Magellan’s Strait, which is reproduced. He...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 81–82.
Published: 01 February 1946
... ocupacion del Estrecho de Magallanes por el gobierno de Chile en 1843. By Armando Braun Menendez. (Buenos Aires: Emecd Editores, 1944. Pp. 353. Illustrations. Paper.) In 1843 the government of Chile asserted its sovereignty over the lands bordering the Strait of Magellan by erecting a blockhouse on its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (4): 470–471.
Published: 01 November 1966
... he feels resulted in Chilean loss of the territory. He contends that Chilean officials viewed the occupation of the Straits and the maintenance of a colony there with no other objective than that of facilitating and fomenting navigation and international maritime trade. In following this policy, he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (3): 478–496.
Published: 01 August 1971
... contract with the Prussian government was up (September 1842), he had applied to the Prussian consul in Valparaiso for remittance of the stipend for the second year. The consul, who alleged lack of instructions, refused to send money, leaving Philippi in desperate financial straits. 28 But he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 844–845.
Published: 01 November 1996
... security should take in the whole circum-Caribbean area and include Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, and all the Central American countries. It is impossible to analyze the drug-trafficking problem, maritime boundaries, or the strategic issues of the Caribbean straits without involving a greater...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 716–718.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., overland expeditions, wars, and wild animals, alternate in Knivet's narrative. A man of quickly shifting fortunes, Knivet had kept for himself a treasure chest of Spanish silver that he had found in the sacked Jesuit college in Santos. But things turned badly when, in the frigid Strait of Magellan, he...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 254–267.
Published: 01 May 1969
....” 70 The issue was neither Patagonia nor the Strait of Magellan, but Senators Frías and Estrada versus Montes de Oca. 71 In fact, the battle for ratification caused Montes de Oca to submit his resignation, and although Avellaneda persuaded him to change his mind, his prestige had suffered...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 82–84.
Published: 01 February 1946
...), and the German-Chilean naturalist Bernardo Philippi completed the personnel of the expedition. With this scant force Chile proposed to assert national claims to the un occupied strait and its environs against all rivals in the New World or in the Old. The modest happenings of this undertaking, so thoroughly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 February 1970
... not learn definitely either the name of the first man who found gold in the vicinity of the strait, or the exact locality in which it was found.” 7 About a decade later some stranded sailors accidentally came upon gold at Cape Vírgenes, a promontory located on the southeastern tip of the Patagonian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 February 1976
... flareups in nineteenth-century southern South America. The discovery of untapped resources and new ways to utilize neglected lands encouraged Chile to pursue negotiations that would give her the Atacama Desert, the Strait of Magellan and valleys nestled in the Andes. Since her actions affected Argentina...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 313–335.
Published: 01 May 1971
... of the circumnavigation is given in Sir Clements Robert Markham (ed.), Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan , Hakluyt Society, Ser. II, Vol. XXVIII (London, 1911). 71 Life of Ferdinand Magellan , p. 197. 70 Baker, Geographical Discovery and Exploration , p. 105. 69 See Medina...
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