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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 650–652.
Published: 01 August 1991
... political alignments arc based. Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 La République exterminatrice. Deuxième partie: L’État vassal . By Gaillard Roger . Port-au-Prince : Le Natal , 1988 . Photographs. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 451 pp. Paper. Haiti: State...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 377–406.
Published: 01 August 2018
... vassals of all social backgrounds constantly suggested new laws to the ruling Council of the Indies. Pressed for time, the council's overwhelmed ministers often transplanted petitions' vocabulary verbatim into decrees. This meant that subjects often phrased imperial laws minor and major, regional...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Lyman L. Johnson Fearful Vassals: Urban Elite Loyalty in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, 1776–1810 . By Peter Blanchard . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2020 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 285 pp. Cloth, $45.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 575–617.
Published: 01 November 2004
... of that hegemony were open to challenge and revision through sanctioned mechanisms. That the Inca nobility, and the cacical elite to the south, asserted and lived up to their claims to be the “most loyal vassals” of the crown in no way required that they accept all aspects of the colonial order. Their form...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Olga Gonzalez-Silen Abstract This essay examines the legal inquest of José María Gonzales, a peninsular vassal of African descent whom in 1809 the authorities in the Captaincy General of Venezuela accused of being a fugitive from slavery and a traitor to the crown. In form, procedure, and outcome...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 February 2023
... by the crown in times of financial need. Extraordinary loans, donativos (gifts), and services requested from Spanish vassals have been the subject of much controversy because they epitomized Spanish intrusion and preying on vassals' and colonies' wealth. Guillermina del Valle Pavón's Negociación, lágrimas y...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (2): 362–364.
Published: 01 May 1970
... been well known: that the “valley” indicated in the title was the Valley of Oaxaca; that 23,000 “vassals” were originally allowed; that the actual number of inhabitants was much larger than this ; and that the Cortés family possessed some special political powers within the jurisdiction. But many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 142.
Published: 01 February 1969
... and Portugal by seizing the city of Bahia, capital of Brazil and second-ranking center of that colony’s sugar industry. One year later a massive combined Luso-Spanish force, the Portuguese contingent of which is known as the “expedition of the vassals,” successfully recaptured that bastion and temporarily...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 1995
...” or voluntarily declared themselves vassals of Charles V. The Tlaxcalans were in a state of perpetual warfare with Tenochtitlan, which pleased Cortés “not a little”; he adds, with devastating cynicism, “so I maneuvered one against the other and thanked each side for their warnings and told each that I held his...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 172–173.
Published: 01 February 2005
... independence is one thing, while to put it into practice is something else entirely. In effect, how could vassals (and Indian vassals, at that) be converted suddenly into citizens? How could equality be stressed in a society founded on inequality? How could the idea of the inalienable rights of individuals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 693–695.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Historians have long grappled with how to interpret derecho indiano , the laws and legal commentary that helped define and shape Spain’s colonial enterprise in the Americas. Early debates questioned whether to privilege its guiding spirit of protecting the crown’s indigenous vassals from abuse...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 302–304.
Published: 01 May 2018
... est” (knowledge is power) (p. 12). The kings needed the information to justly award fealty and punish treachery, and the vassals responded primarily by affirming their loyalty rather than describing matters with unbiased precision. In fact, when the visitador (investigative judge) Juan de Ovando...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 536–537.
Published: 01 August 2018
... for women and indigenous vassals. To avoid romanticizing the nature of these changes as leading to a freer, more modern world, Premo makes it clear that the increasing shift toward rights-oriented law did not necessarily translate into fairer treatment or egalitarianism for Spanish American subjects...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 516–518.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., and deploy when assessing the unstoppable flow of vassal requests. As he explores these advances toward efficiency and standardization, which placed the Hapsburgs at the vanguard of their European counterparts, Masters also complicates the maxim that knowledge equals power by highlighting the enormous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 695–704.
Published: 01 November 1981
..., was an efficient means of usefully involving local vassals in defense. Operating in concert with veteran forces, such troops could, Ricla asserted, produce at a reasonable cost the kind of trained manpower required to compete with the British. 5 Ricla possessed extensive administrative and military experience...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (2): 358.
Published: 01 May 1979
... vassal and good Spaniard,” exemplified the Enlightenment bureaucrat of the late eighteenth century. Born in Andalucía, he advanced professionally through the patronage and protection of José de Gálvez. In 1777, Sanz, the rational, empirical man of reform, arrived in Montevideo as the director general...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 258–259.
Published: 01 May 1995
... with other premodern examples of imperialism. The author has used the “hegemonic-territorial” model of analysis, which emphasizes decision-making strategies, disposition of imperial assets, and their relevance to the extraction of vassal resources. The virtue of this work is primarily archaeological...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 276–277.
Published: 01 May 1995
... states of Italy. At the same time, imperial order demanded common directives. Although they were vassals in Europe, Italians became coadventurers and partners in the Europeanization of the New World. The 30 essays in this volume celebrate this Italian-Spanish convergence in a generally felicitous...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 115.
Published: 01 February 1997
... and the European model. They obscure as much as they illuminate. Granted, there may be a common dynamic to lord-vassal relationships in feudal and tributary societies, but to use these to describe the entire structure of the society misses too many of the nuances that make one town different from another and give...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 765–766.
Published: 01 November 1983
..., identified herein for the first time in Mesoamerica. Segmentary lineage organization constitutes the very core of Quiché migration, conquest, political confederation, and incorporation of subjugated “vassal” lineages through intermarriage, and mirrors the finely detailed dualistic then quadripartite...
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