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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 551–586.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Swiss families, mostly from the rural canton of Fribourg. This study shows how the unusual central European settler migration to the Brazilian tropics was facilitated by a new class of entrepreneurial go-betweens, acting as dynamic mediators between the effects that the climatic catastrophe caused...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 723–725.
Published: 01 November 1995
... the sending area of emigrants (here, Switzerland) and the principal receiving zones in Latin America, Brazil, and Mexico. This is what Beatrice Veyrassat, author of a previous study of the Swiss cotton textile industry until 1840 (Negociants et fabricants dans l’industrie cotonnière suisse, 1750–1840 , 1982...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 623–624.
Published: 01 August 1986
..., and the countermeasures taken against them, much of which is reminiscent of the multiple misfortunes of African slaves. So much was this the case, in fact, that, in the opinion of several Swiss officials, the agency in charge of recruiting Swiss workers for Brazil seemed intended for nothing more than the procurement...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 767–768.
Published: 01 November 2017
... quietly, this book also subtly demonstrates the profundity of the Swiss–Latin American linkage. Perhaps some have heard of how Swiss military trainers rivaled French and German experts in Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s. In the diplomacy discussed in this book, the Swiss and the citizens of Geneva...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Joseph T. Criscenti This is a thumbnail biography of Jorge Claraz, whose endowment for botanical and zoological studies led the Society for Scientific Investigation, Switzerland, to become the Georges and Antoine Claraz Foundation. A Swiss and German trained geologist and mineralogist, Claraz...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 569–571.
Published: 01 August 2023
... sections are significantly shorter. The third provides a record of the Swiss ambassador and Italian and German consuls' letters in association with the bicentennial, and the fourth a rich reproduction of Ibicaba visual culture, from maps and postcards to oil paintings and photographs. Through these four...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 510–511.
Published: 01 August 1976
... Italian, French, German, Swiss, and English. Of the artistic forms lithography was the most important, and here he emphasizes Bade, a Swiss, as do most Argentine historians. It appears also that most editors of periodicals were foreigners. Many writers in the early Rosas period later turned against him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 384–385.
Published: 01 August 1967
... . By Herrera Felipe . Zürich , 1965 . Orell Füssli Verlag . Pp. 193 . Fr. 24.50 (Swiss) . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The two books under review consist of articles by Latin American officials of various inter-American institutions, with only one exception, a Swiss...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (4): 549–552.
Published: 01 November 1967
.... 262 . $120.00 . (Mex.). Introduction á l’étude de l’art précolombien du Mexique . By D’Arquian Maurice and Stolper Robert . Zürich , 1964 . Editions du Cercle d’Art Contemporain . Illustrations. Map . Pp. 62 . Paper. Fr. 20.00 (Swiss). Copyright 1967 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 537–539.
Published: 01 August 2024
...). Chapter 2 uses this earlier history to recontextualize the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race as coming out of a long engagement with thinking from the Southern Hemisphere. Chapter 3, moving from the institutional to the intellectual, examines the dialogues between the Swiss Argentine Alfred Métraux, who would...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 265.
Published: 01 May 1964
... is a subject of valid criticism, yet the fourteen different men are of interest, and the book should be known to Americans interested in Latin America. This Swiss book is a collection of rather unrelated topics whose only theme of unity is a purpose of discussing modern problems of Latin America...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 324.
Published: 01 May 1997
... portraits of such relentlessly colorful figures as Jacob Sutter, a Swiss national with a shady past; John C. Fremont, the U.S. explorer with an agenda of his own; and the first parties of U.S. citizens to reach northern California are well drawn. The author avoids moral conclusions about Vallejo...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 844–845.
Published: 01 November 1975
... of the European immigrant parceiro on the coffee fazenda of Ibicaba. German and Swiss families began to arrive in the late 1840s, yet they confronted numerous obstacles: culturally, they had to contend with a different language, religion, and agricultural technique; financially, they had to overcome initial...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 792–793.
Published: 01 November 1981
... 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Swiss author Urs Höner, a student of Rudolf Braun, intends “to show that the Portuguese crown, seconded by the Society of Jesus, did not strive for a ‘just’ solution of the Brazilian Indian problem, but directed its indigenous policy to consolidate Portuguese...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 1972
..., “probably only specialists will make much use of these journals.” Who besides someone seeking insight into pioneering research in the United States cares what a Swiss immigrant Indianologist saw from a train window, or even trudging over a site once occupied by prehistoric Indians? One cannot complain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 May 1981
...” as having “the misfortune to be subject to fits of hypochondria, which sometimes degenerated into madness” (p. 43). What is not explained is that this particular European visitor was Swiss naturalist Johann Rudolph Rengger, a colorful character who pandered to French imperial designs by regularly sending...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 750–751.
Published: 01 November 1977
.... The outcome was a series of revolts among the Swiss and German colonists which played an important part in overthrowing the Autonomista party’s provincial government in August 1893. But after the revolution failed on the national scene, the Autonomistas regrouped, took terrible vengeance against immigrant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 February 1962
... the American-Swiss Private International Law, Delaume: American-French Private International Law and Kollewijn: American-Dutch Private International Law tend to follow a relatively fixed pattern from which this book has not varied in any essential way. It should be noted, however, that this volume is really...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 378–379.
Published: 01 May 1970
... situation,’ where one group, whether immigrant or indigenous, is socially, economically, and politically dominant, and a ‘separate-but-equal’ situation of the Swiss, Belgian, or Yugoslav type” (p. 84). The final chapter on “The Sociocultural Dynamics of the Plural Society” contrasts the “ethnic fluidity...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 707–708.
Published: 01 November 1968
... through the published literature related to the Swiss adventurer, and has made extensive use of widely scattered manuscripts. The result is a fairly detailed, yet readable biography. It is not documented, and serious students of the period will wish that at least some footnote references were given...
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