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Ladrones de Luz : Policing Electricity in Mexico City, 1901–1918
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Diana J. Montaño Abstract This essay explores Mexico City's electrification in the early twentieth century through the lens of power theft. The arrest and resulting trial of dozens of capitalinos (Mexico City residents) suspected of power theft allow us to document the nuances of policing...
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City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 808–810.
Published: 01 November 2002
... in record-keeping on rape accusations (none were kept between 1900 and 1937, table 13) call into question the author’s comments on the rape conviction ratio; similarly, a three-fold increase in theft arrests (after a gap between 1895 and 1922 during which no theft arrests were recorded; see table 15) seems...
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Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880 – 1910
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of as a crime. Carrasquillo concludes, inspired by E. P. Thompson’s work on popular claims of new rights based on allegedly customary usages, that rural theft was a “new” tradition invented by common people to curb late nineteenth-century hunger and poverty. She also notes the social strain created by pilferage...
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The Plundered Past
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (1): 160.
Published: 01 February 1975
..., Steven Neuse and Richard Sinkin, all of The University of Texas at Austin. Karl Meyer has written a fascinating book, the first to treat in detail the elusive world of the illegal international traffic in works of art. The book covers the entire gamut of the art world, from thefts of priceless...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 450–472.
Published: 01 August 1980
... to weak enforcement in explaining rural criminality. Eduardo Rosales, commenting upon livestock thefts in 1901, blamed what he termed the cult of laziness. The Argentine paisano or rural native, according to the policeman, preferred stealing to working. Naturally lazy, indifferent to misery, homeless...
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Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816 – 1929
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 289–290.
Published: 01 May 2008
... of the bourgeoisie and the liberal state. On the other extreme are arguments that theft of property, as defined by the rule of law, is always theft of property, and that violence outside the limits of the law is impermissible violence, no matter the context in which such crimes might occur. While Dabove skillfully...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 356–358.
Published: 01 May 1996
... is still to come. Anthropologist Sosa Abella explores some of the social relations in the late colonial Indian resguardos by looking at crimes of theft (approximately 13 cases) and murder (approximately 26 cases) committed by Indians against whites and mestizos in the province of Tunja. Most...
View articletitled, Criminalidad, ley penal, y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia, 1750-1820 Pecado y delito en la colonia: la bestialidad como una forma de contravención sexual (1740-1808) Labradores, tejedores, y ladrones: hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja, 1745-1810
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for article titled, Criminalidad, ley penal, y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia, 1750-1820 Pecado y delito en la colonia: la bestialidad como una forma de contravención sexual (1740-1808) Labradores, tejedores, y ladrones: hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja, 1745-1810
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Trading Insults: Honor, Violence, and the Gendered Culture of Commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s–1950s
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 83–118.
Published: 01 February 2003
... by theft or other illicit means. If the case reveals that sexual morality might be a component of both female and male honor, it also shows that virtue alone was not the essence of women’s status. Honesty mattered too. Finally, there is conflict over social and racial status. The spark behind...
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Wellington y España
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 275.
Published: 01 May 1962
... of the recent theft of the Goya painting of Wellington, Azcárate’s descriptions of the several sittings the general had with the great Spanish painter are of timely interest. The posings were interrupted by the intrusions of British officers, to whom Wellington gave peppery and sometimes angry instructions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 May 1965
... important strikes and labor positions. The first documents cover the supposed theft by Irineo Pimentel (whose jailing in December, 1963, set off the hostage issue with the United States) from the Siglo XX miners’ union. Then there is the reprinting of the parliamentary interpellation of the Trotskyites...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 431–459.
Published: 01 August 1987
... the gratuitous taking of cattle and hides became a crime, gauchos moved back and forth between legal and illegal activities—between estancia work and cattle theft. Rural residents always had hunted cattle for consumption and for hides to sell. Direct appropriation was a way of life and a necessity to country...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
... Petty theft ( ratoneiros ) 41 Investigation (unspecified) 851 Mental derangement 40 Disorderly conduct 835 Riot 30 Theft 749 Illegal assembly 24 Drunkenness 555 Offense to morals 22 Physical injury 497 Property damage 13 Vagrancy 493 Resistance 13 Capoeira 404...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 762.
Published: 01 November 1989
... essay on crime after 1812 appears as an appendix. Another appendix, accounting for almost half the book, consists of tables of biographical and judicial information compiled from the criminal cases. Of the eleven types of crime noted, the most frequently recorded were theft (the most common...
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Social and Economic Frontiers in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 597–598.
Published: 01 November 1962
... aid programs, fiscal and monetary policy, and other Latin Americanists, are reflected in the relatively generous allocation of space to the second and fourth of these divisions. Thirteen pages are devoted to an exposition of the doctrine that inflation is legalized theft, for example, while...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 728–729.
Published: 01 November 1987
... dabbled in simplistic ideas, and demonstrates that Sandino had a coherent ideological and political program, which he derived from the thinking of European and Mexican anarchists. Sandino adhered to the beliefs that “property is theft” and that the workers’ struggle against capital is a matter of class...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 341.
Published: 01 May 1965
..., the reaction in the Mexican press to the publication of the memoirs of Henry Lane Wilson, the Yaqui rebellion and the theft of documents from the United States Embassy. Regardless of subject the author’s position is always clearly defined. He is sympathetic toward what he regards as the struggle for “religious...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 405–430.
Published: 01 August 1987
... in Potosí. One might speculate that had the mita been abolished in Potosí, entrepreneurs there would have found it necessary to take drastic steps to reduce costs, and these conceivably could have included the repression necessary to eliminate the theft of ore and force the creation of a wage-labor work...
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Los Judíos en América. Sus actividades en los Virreinatos de Nueva Castilla y Nueva Granada, S. XVII
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 286–287.
Published: 01 May 1968
..., they had little devotion either to Spain or to her religious system. An unfortunate feature of the book is that it highlights criminal activities of the converted Jews—for example, theft, swindling, or blasphemy—without emphasing the positive values of this group, which lived a double life, externally...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 172–173.
Published: 01 February 1984
... the theft and sale of roughly 70 percent of the northern cattle, in exchange for munitions and supplies for the rebellion (or for private gain). Efforts to restrict the export of cattle availed little. Foreign owners clashed with successive administrations and often sought to move their stock across the Río...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 789–790.
Published: 01 November 1979
...; and a curtailment of wage differentials. The economic consequences were even more dramatic: labor discipline increased, absenteeism and labor turnover decreased; strikes practically disappeared; theft was reduced; defective products were fewer; innovations abounded; investment levels increased; and productivity...
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