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Hispanic American Historical Review (1959) 39 (2): 315.
Published: 01 May 1959
...T. N. Campbell Surface Survey of the Northern Valley of Mexico. The Classic and Post-Classic Periods . By Tolstoy Paul . Philadelphia , 1958 . The American Philosophical Society . New Series , Vol. 48 , Part 5. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Photographs. Index . Pp. 101 . Paper. $2.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 303–336.
Published: 01 May 2019
... portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot opposition or even to eliminate the poor. This article analyzes the epistemological contests that surfaced in response...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 1994
... prehistory, speculating about the colonizing of the Bahamas by the native Lucayans. He proposes the Lucayans’ social organization, subsistence strategy, and population, primarily on the basis of surface surveys of the middle and southern islands. One chapter discusses where Columbus made his initial landfall...
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in How to Read the Rock Face? Getting Old in the Archive of Postcolonial Mexico
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 4. Codex Mendoza, showing Nahua representations of war shields, which Espinosa used to interpret the escudo on Tianguistepetl. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1, fol. 4v. https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00486220/surfaces
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 1984
... near the great Oaxacan site of Monte Albán. The surface surveys and excavations discussed in the book were undertaken in 1973 and directed toward answering two principal questions: (1) the effect the irrigation system had on the adjacent community, and (2) possible cause-and-effect associations between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 February 2003
... as signifiers: that is, that wives’ bodies were the focus of intense surveillance because it was so difficult to read women’s status as “perfect” or “imperfect” wives from surface appearances. To demonstrate this, Black makes use of three texts: Fray Luis de León’s La perfecta casada , Pedro Calderón de la...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 589.
Published: 01 August 1986
...-Aztec frontier and its dynamics. This is accomplished primarily through the use of ethnohistoric information and early colonial documents. Additionally, a small amount of archaeological research was conducted, including a surface survey of the site’s immediate vicinity, surface mapping and collections...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (3): 534–535.
Published: 01 August 2017
... relocation, recycling of body parts, trophy acquisition, possible flaying, and the surface exposure of dead bodies and their subsequent decomposition. Belying the seeming brutality is the sobering realization that ancient peoples engaged in such practices often, but not always, as part of the veneration...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 358–360.
Published: 01 May 2018
...' persistent preoccupation with representation—in this case, self-representation—and facades. His high walls at once conceal and invite the observer to explore his manipulation of colored surfaces to produce affective space. The international popularity of Barragán's works for their Mexicanness stripped...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 721–722.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., “ Encyclopédie noire : Part III.” Surfacing the mechanics of Moreau's choices proves that he was no mere “man of his times” but an active shaper of white supremacist political economy (pp. 2–3, 58). A counterpoint to Moreau's fabulations is a remarkable range of original art—collages that combine eighteenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11676694.
Published: 30 December 2024
.... In the Inca Empire, no two rock shrines were ever alike. Some rock shrines, so Ranney s photos show, come with an incredibly smooth surface. Others were left raw and rough by Inca artisans. Some stone ensembles feature intricate geometric and gurative shapes and lead the onlooker to wonder about...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 February 1975
... of silver were registered at Trujillo, compared with 235,000 at Pasco. The problem was one that had been encountered in many mining centers: as the rich surface ores that could be exploited at little capital cost were worked out, the need to dig longer and deeper shafts and adits cut into profits, which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 535–537.
Published: 01 August 1998
..., the external dimension in the growth of Mexico and Brazil hardly surfaces in other essays. Summerhill’s reference to dependence is one clue to the principal title (How Latin America Fell Behind ); more explicit is Haber’s introductory essay questioning the accuracy of a dependence syndrome that explains...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 155–157.
Published: 01 February 2000
... that it naturally deserves, but also underscoring their contiguities, continuities, and discontinuities.” The editors also claim that theirs “is a reassessment and expansion of the canon of Latin American literature, seen in a broad, new-world context” (p. xiii). On the surface, these assertions might read like...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (4): 818.
Published: 01 November 1984
... University Press 1984 Submarine Lessons, William J. Ruhe; Large Versus Small Carriers, James L. George; Surface Combatant Lessons, Norman Friedman; Air Power Lessons, Earl H. Tilford, Jr.; Amphibious Lessons, Frank Uhlig, Jr.; Ground Warfare Lessons, Harry G. Summers, Jr.; Smart Weapons, William J...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 740–741.
Published: 01 November 1980
... boundaries), population, economic activity, transportation, and surface geology. Although the most recent data for the atlas is from 1974, this should nevertheless be a handy tool for Central Americanists. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 264–265.
Published: 01 May 1964
... of the speeches are critical of American aid, which has, in the last decade, saved Bolivia from a catastrophe. What is so illuminating about this booklet is simply the freshness with which prejudice comes to the surface—that giving aid will simply not buy friends and change the temper and way of life of Latin...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 410.
Published: 01 May 1971
... . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography . Pp. xxviii , 141 . $5.00 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 This book will have limited uses, since it is neither critically translated nor annotated. It is, rather, a sometimes faulty surface transposition of words from Spanish...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (3): 578.
Published: 01 August 1977
... the pioneer work of W. H. Holmes (1882–1883). Of note is MacCurdy’s ceramic analysis which incorporated both manufacturing technique and surface treatment. This pottery classification remains valid today. MacCurdy’s observations on stylistic change in grave goods led to his recognition of the autochthonous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (3): 354.
Published: 01 August 1966
... conventions of 1854 and 1860 as minister of government under Valentín Alsina, as member of the Supreme Court in 1862 under Mitre’s presidency, and finally just before his death as president of that court. The writer has delved beneath the surface, however, to uncover in personal letters and papers the poems...
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