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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 617–649.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... The exquisite quality of the fiber and the tractable nature of this new hybrid animal gave rise to the hope that it might become a valuable resource, and therefore Peru was indebted to the priest and his service on behalf of the young republic. This essay examines Cabrera's venture, the creation of the paco...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and Indians were perceived by royalist elites as valuable allies, and for that reason elites were willing to negotiate and offer concessions to secure their loyalty. I describe the complex negotiations with Indians in terms of tribute payment, and with slaves over freedom, that have been left completely out...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of racist and sexist ideas across Latin American societies. Moreover, her work was part of an early wave that brought the application of feminist and critical race theory to the field, with valuable outcomes. Her work has been a springboard for continuing investigations of the interplay between scientific...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 203.
Published: 01 February 1984
..., a number of valuable perceptions are presented relating to family strategies toward marriage, fertility, sexual relationships, and shifting mortality patterns. Archival and printed sources are used extensively and include census manuscripts, civil registers, notary records, judicial proceedings, church...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of the personal and professional contacts it provided, it is not surprising that Tate focuses primarily on the evolution of local Colombian activist groups. Here, she offers valuable insights with regard to how local activist identities that are associated with Catholic and Marxist worldviews and institutional...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., and Córdoba between the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The subject is significant, and the book makes a valuable contribution toward rounding out the historical picture of the pampean region. It is divided into six chapters that can be read as self...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Dominican Republic Reader is a valuable and eminently teachable collection that benefits from the varied interests and deep expertise of its editors. The collection is temporally balanced, beginning with entries about pre...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (3): 631.
Published: 01 August 1983
.... The Transamazon scheme has indeed come to be a historical landmark, but one that represents the folly of the approach taken and the failure of many ill-founded dreams. Smith’s book will surely prove a valuable source to historians seeking to interpret the events of the 1970s. Smith proposes to “take a decade-long...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 90–91.
Published: 01 February 1968
... in print. The latest volume of the Caribbean Conference Series suffers from all these drawbacks, but it contains enough valuable material to be worth consulting. A few essays are full of informative statistics and other facts: for example, those of José A. Mestre (“Investments”), Maurice J. Mountain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 789–790.
Published: 01 November 1975
... curiosity of political and economic historians interested in Mexico’s development. Perhaps what is most valuable about these memoirs is the vivid description of one man’s rise in public life in Mexico. Villaseñor gives us insight into personnel decisions within the Mexican political system, some...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 156–157.
Published: 01 February 1969
... as for its relevance to intradisciplinary social studies. Regrettably the authors of these studies are not identified. This anonymity deprives them and the OAS of valuable personal incentives and professional recognition; it also prevents the scholarly community from exchanging ideas with them directly...
View articletitled, Sistemas tributarios de América Latina. Costa Rica Sistemas tributarios de América Latina. Honduras Sistemas tributarios de América Latina. Nicaragua
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (2): 363–364.
Published: 01 May 1990
... a valuable contribution to the study of Colombia’s nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic history. The authors use quantitative sources to test some of the hypotheses and speculative observations in the economic historiography that greatly depend on qualitative sources. Ocampo and Montenegro have...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 596–597.
Published: 01 August 1988
... . Cloth . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 In this valuable case study, attorney-historian David J. Langum examines the clash of Hispanic and Anglo-American legal traditions in Alta California. Although he focuses largely on the single decade before U.S. forces seized that remote...
View articletitled, Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier: Anglo-American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 February 1963
.... 443 . $8.50 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The need for good works in English on Brazil has been keenly felt by all who teach its history. Professor Boxer has been doing much to fill that need. This is a worthy addition to his other valuable studies. Basing himself...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 498–500.
Published: 01 August 1981
... summarizer. What seems to be lacking are penetrating insights that often make syntheses so valuable. This study is far more narrative than interpretive; it is valuable, though one cannot help but think that its value would have been enhanced by more flights of imagination. The synthesis begins...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 462–463.
Published: 01 August 1995
.... The second chapter, written by Martha Menchaca, describes the research methodology employed in the LPEP and compares the findings for the three main Latino subgroups. A very valuable section of this chapter provides a solid review of the anthropological literature on ethnicity (especially for Mexican...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 789.
Published: 01 November 1970
... painting from the earliest rock shelter art, to which he does less than justice. The section on pre-Columbian painting depends mainly on Villagra, Garibay and León-Portilla and is valuable as a brief summary of some of their ideas in English, but Rodríguez is clearly not at home with the subject. The same...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 196–197.
Published: 01 February 1981
... at the Research Institute (IPEA/INPES) of the Brazilian Planning Secretariat. The major difference between the two volumes is that the English version has purged the extremely valuable, thirty-page statistical appendix included in the original IPEA publication. Mahar has provided us with the best overall...
View articletitled, Desenvolvimento Econômico da Amazônia: Uma Análise das Políticas Governamentais Frontier Development Policy in Brazil: A Study of Amazonia
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 728–729.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Silvia Escanilla Huerta This is a valuable study that makes a strong case for the dynamism and intellectual complexity of the debates that occurred in Quito during the monarchical crisis. At the same time, the book highlights how Hispanic neo-scholasticism was attuned to the main political...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (2): 377–379.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Dwight B. Heath This book is valuable not only in illustrating the utility of viewing “law as a language,” but also as an ethnographic document. For those who have not already noticed, Zinacantan is one of the best described and most insightfully analyzed social systems in the non-Western world...
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