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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 709–710.
Published: 01 November 2014
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in “A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote”: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978–1983
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Published: 01 November 2010
Figure 2 December 23, 1981. Onlookers stand by as bulldozers work on Christmas Eve, removing tons of accumulated trash behind block 6, 23 de Enero. Giorgio Lombardi/ El Nacional .
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 762–764.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Silver exports were minimal prior to 1820, by land or sea, but in the first decades of the republic they grew rapidly by both means. One problem in writing mining history concerns how to communicate the reality of a ton of rock. A cubic meter (1.3 cubic yards) of copper ore will weigh roughly one...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 468–473.
Published: 01 August 1978
... 111,134 113,509 Stations in Córdoba 95,003 109,501 70,496 191,270 Total for the line 181,630 304,779 181,630 304,779 Tons per kilometer: Santa Fe 780 1,760 1,001 1,423 Córdoba 334 386 248 673 Sources: Carrasco, Descripción , p. 195, and Dirección General...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 225–235.
Published: 01 May 1967
.... Only through a state protected and supported infrastructure—which controls mines assigned to it by the state—can the precondition be established for a price such as Ribeiro suggests. 15. Ribeiro wants to deliver the ore for 14 shillings per ton f.o.b. Rio. Assuming sea freight costs of 5 shillings...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 605–629.
Published: 01 November 1976
... coastal vessels. Only one of every fourteen zumacas , forty-ton vessels, was registered under an Anglo name. It was not uncommon for creoles to purchase boats from foreign owners, or for immigrant Portuguese and Italians, experienced ocean sailors, to own craft made in Brazil and Sardinia. 57...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 598–620.
Published: 01 November 1972
... have placed it at around £ 18 per ton. 24 According to the British minister in Lima, it cost about 11s,6d. to dig and load a ton of guano (the work mainly of convict labor), 25 a further £4,17s. on average for freights, and another 11s,6d. for insurance, warehousing, sales commissions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (4): 784.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Sylvester Damus Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Table I: Central Argentine Railway: Distribution of Freight Traffic Between Provinces, 1882 and 1884. Tons Loaded Tons Unloaded 1882 1884 1882 1884 At Rosario . . . . 145,488 . . . . 101,070 Avila...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 August 1976
... roads; rain, unstable terrain, and wooden cart wheels left the tracks in such poor condition that goods often took months to cover the one hundred miles between San José and Guatemala City, at a cost of up to sixty pesos per ton. 23 To the Liberal the railroad was the quintessential “emblem...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 639.
Published: 01 August 1970
... established his personal force, the Ton Ton Macoute, translated as “Uncle Big Stick.” Since vaudun permeates Haitian life, while French culture is but a residue, Katherine Dunham performs a great service in describing her own personal experience with vaudun ritual. She also conducted brave enquiries...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 August 1978
... of levels of economic activity, Professor Damus has misread my statistics on cart traffic in and out of Rosario. In 1855, carts and mules together carried approximately 15,000 to 16,000 tons of goods into Rosario from the interior. Eight years later, the figures provided by a British consul show...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 August 2024
... stage (p. 76). Chapters 2 and 3 trace the debates and policies around the revolution's first (1959) and second (1963) agrarian reforms, respectively; the fourth chapter provides an impressive in-depth analysis of the famous 1970 ten-million-ton sugar harvest that served to bookend the first decade...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 113–136.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of sarsaparilla, and 5,000 pounds of turtle shell, for a total commerce of £27,000. In the next sentence, he contrasted the Black River economy with that of Belize, which exported 8,000 tons of logwood valued at £20 a ton. Over a decade later, Superintendent Otway reported that the Black River trade “consists...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 65–77.
Published: 01 February 1963
... and El Príncipe (also called “El Toisón,” and “San Antonio,” respectively), displacing 193 tons each; and Two schooners, the Sonora and Sinaloa , both of 30 tons burden. 20 After presiding at the San Blas junta in May, 1768, José de Gálvez remained on the coast of Nueva Galicia...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 178–179.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jonathan C. Brown The speeches of Fidel and Raúl deployed the ideas of guerrillerismo at times of urgency in the history of the revolution. During the ten-million-ton sugar harvest, the Sovietization of the early 1970s, the Mariel boatlift, the African ventures of the late 1980s, the Special...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 295–312.
Published: 01 May 1971
... at Realejo and other ports of New Spain was inefficient and expensive when compared to similar work done in the Philippines. Sánchez estimated that four ships could be built in the Philippines in the time required to build one in New Spain, and a 500-600 ton ship costing 50,000 to 60,000 pesos in New Spain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 August 1963
... tons registered on the eve of the war with Spain in the sixties. That conflict eliminated the Chilean flag from the sea and it was not until 1884, after the War of the Pacific, that the previous mark was equalled. Another high point came in 1910, when about 100,000 tons were registered. There followed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 August 1970
... enterprise venture, but with the passing of time and the need for operating and expansion capital, each has become government-owned and operated. Brazil, which produced approximately 180,000 tons of steel in 1940, lifted its production by 1967 to more than 3.7 million tons. The nation is the largest...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 1969
... that a sugar crop of 10 million metric tons could provide enough foreign exchange to meet Cuba’s needs, and that this goal could be reached in 1970. Yet drouth has held the 1968 crop to 5 million tons, 3.5 million short of the goal. Boorstein’s book concedes Cuba’s water problem, but he writes grandiosely...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 May 1968
... production is already 1,397,000 metric tons, the projection for 1970 is only 1,684,000 metric tons (p. 108). I think that Cole’s source for locational theory (Hartshore’s article of 1928) is obsolescent, and he does not fully appreciate the new economics of iron-to-coal relationships, nor the new technology...
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