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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 109–111.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Gertrude M. Yeager Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru . By Meléndez Mariselle . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 235 pp. Cloth , $55.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 101–137.
Published: 01 February 2023
... under military watch and become “useful” Argentine citizens in the process. This short-lived assimilationist project, which the government abandoned three years later, illuminates the rapidly shifting dynamics of Argentine settler colonial ideology. Although Argentine officials initially saw Conesa...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Kevin Gosner The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 . By Sophie Brockmann . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 267 pp. Cloth, $99.99...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 May 2009
...David Scott Palmer In his use of an asymmetry framework, Pineo is successful, thereby offering an implicit critique of the extensive literature on U.S. foreign policy that frames the United States as a regional hegemon. He illustrates the political dynamics at work by fleshing out a number...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 573–575.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Amanda M. López Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City . By Jonathan M. Weber The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 276 pp. Paper, $30.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 736–738.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of policing will find this work particularly useful. Admittedly, Alvarez focuses more on US border policy, yet he has cleared a space for future studies on the motivations of Mexican functionaries' border infrastructure strategies. Alvarez acts as a guide to the border that we all need. Nothing appears...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 691–692.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Natale A. Zappia These People Have Always Been a Republic focuses regionally on the borderlands of New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora during the periods of Spanish, Mexican, and US rule. The first chapter offers a comparative history of Indigenous communities and politics among the Hopis, Yaquis...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 587–588.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... Unsurprisingly, the Bush administration saw the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas as a victory for democracy promotion. One of his most effective chapters addresses the opposition of US citizens to US policy in Nicaragua. Schmidli is rather skeptical of the depth of understanding that many activists had...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 544–545.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and limits. Accordingly, the geopolitical symmetry between where this book ends and where it begins, between San Antonio in 1968 and Buffalo in 1901, between Washington's respective East-West transpacific interventions in the Philippines and in Vietnam, are notable for how US empire's public culture demanded...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 556–557.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Julia María Schiavone Camacho Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide . By Dear Michael . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 270 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright © 2015...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 February 1976
...-1939 . By Hoffman Abraham . Foreword by Nava Julian . Tucson , 1974 . The University of Arizona Press . Maps. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 207 . Cloth $9.75 ; Paper $4.75 . The Uses of the Media by the Chicano Movement: A Study in Minority...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (2): 361.
Published: 01 May 1976
...Joseph Zentner Ganja in Jamaica merits praise because it links cannabis use in a particular Latin American setting to broader historical and cultural considerations. It should be of interest to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, as well as students of the contemporary drug scene...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (2): 300–302.
Published: 01 May 1972
... G. . New York , 1971 . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . Tables. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 339 . Paper. $3.95 . US Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s . By Healy David . Madison, Wisconsin , 1970 . The University of Wisconsin Press . Illustrations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 331–333.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Jeremy Adelman Disciplinary Conquest: US Scholars in South America, 1900–1945 . By Salvatore Ricardo D. . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 329 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Alan Dye If there is weakness in the book, it is that these insights appear ad hoc in an analysis of British diplomatic acquiescence to US interests. A systematic examination of the insights that British diplomats, experienced in the administration of a vast empire, could offer to the American...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 334–336.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of diplomacy and intrigue” (p. 3). Still, Kiser's vagueness on “empire” and what constitutes an illusion of it—these “illusions” are shared by a South Texas con artist (p. 128) as well as Napoleon III—does little to clarify how this might be a useful model for understanding other borderland or empire-making...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Bryan Pitts Anti-Communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations during the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964–1985) . By Larissa Rosa Corrêa . Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill . Work in Global and Historical Perspective . Berlin : Walter de Gruyter , 2022 . Notes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Antonio Pedro Tota; Bruno Leonardo Ramos Andreotti [email protected] [email protected] Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America . By Rebecca Herman . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Photographs...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (2): 329–330.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Sean F. McEnroe [email protected] The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the US-Mexico Borderlands . By Travis Jeffres . Borderlands and Transcultural Studies . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Patrick Iber [email protected] Foundations, US Foreign Policy and Anti-racism in Brazil: Pushing Racial Democracy . By Elizabeth Cancelli , Gustavo Mesquita , and Wanderson Chaves . Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy . London : Routledge , 2023 . Notes...