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Hispanic American Historical Review (1944) 24 (4): 664–667.
Published: 01 November 1944
... figures, 9 tables .) Excavations in the Vicinity of Cali, Colombia . By Ford James A. . [ Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 31. George Peter Murdock and Cornelius Osgood, editors .] ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1944 . Pp. 79 . 4 plates, 19 figures. Bound...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 589.
Published: 01 August 1986
... Publications in Anthropology , 1985 . Figures. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes . Pp. vi , 303 . Paper. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 This study of Acámbaro and its immediate vicinity represents a continuation of the author’s research in the region of the pre-Hispanic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 217–238.
Published: 01 May 1973
... period provides the general framework for assessing Indian land retention. Data on colonial land possession in the vicinity of Metztitlán are found in a variety of sources. Viceregal land grants offer the most comprehensive data on the size of Spanish landholdings; additional data are provided...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 569–576.
Published: 01 November 1962
... all his efforts he was also unsuccessful in finding the Isla de Cedros. 6 In 1705 he was with Kino. From the vicinity of San Xavier del Bac they discerned the summit of the Sierra Giganta in Lower California. Kino reasoned from what they saw that California must be a peninsula, not an island...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 218.
Published: 01 May 1966
... 1966 The author tries hard to give to these islands and to many other coral reefs in the vicinity a most respectable past. However the writing of an established authority on a subject which fascinates him has not in this ease produced good reading material. The narrative gives the impression...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1961) 41 (2): 312.
Published: 01 May 1961
... of the Maya” von Hagen presents a clear and informative account of the customs of the people of Yucatan and vicinity at the coming of the Spanish conquerors. He has produced a unified and well documented work from such diverse sources as Diego de Landa’s “Relation of the things of Yucatan,” the Maya books...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 463–464.
Published: 01 August 1968
... the preeminent one is that of United States relations with the host country. Would there be an annual subvention to the host? Would the United States be permitted to maintain military forces adequate for the safeguarding of the route in the immediate vicinity of the canal? How could harmful effects of a new...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 1963
... the poorer Chilean farmers who live in their vicinity. Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Mapuche Social Structure. Institutional Reintegration in a Patrilineal Society of Central Chile . By Faron L. C. . Urbana, III. , 1961 . University of Illinois Press . Illinois Studies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 760–761.
Published: 01 November 1989
... to the data on their priests. Moreover, some statements are obviously erroneous, e.g., the author believes that Pača Kamaq’s cult disappeared because of Lima’s vicinity. Nevertheless the book can be used as a guide to research, sources, and problems concerning Andean priests in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 August 1971
... harbor. Wroth suggests, without seeking to prove, that Verrazzano visited the Newfoundland area with the Thomas Aubert expedition as early as 1508. If so it would explain his treatment of this vicinity as familiar in his report of the 1524 discoveries. Verrazzano called himself a Florentine...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 May 1977
... conquests, believed that his voyages had taken him to the vicinity of Cipangú or Japan. But what relation does this allusion have with the admirable work under review? None, really. Yet there is a curious interest in the fact that a gifted Japanese scholar chose to make a meticulous study of the cultural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 718–719.
Published: 01 November 1994
... places along the frontier of New Spain by an army of missionaries busily transplanting ideas and objects to a new environment. Our perspective on this period has been based largely on the written records of these proselytizers because so little archaeology has been completed. Research in the vicinity...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... The final “host” group comprised peoples who had lived in more or less egalitarian polities in the general vicinity of the Choctaw “Mother Mound” near modern Philadelphia, Mississippi, since well before De Soto’s time. Choctaw, the language, became the public language for peoples who spoke other languages...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 766–767.
Published: 01 November 1989
... way to explore Calle de la Moneda and its immediate vicinity. As guide, Porras lies closer to the encyclopedic tradition of José María Marroquí (La Ciudad de México) than to the whimsy of earlier guides such as Antonio García Cubas (El libro de mis recuerdos) or Luis González Obregón (México...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 May 2000
... comfortable with the Villistas, who for several months maintained order in the vicinity of Guanajuato, than they were with Venustiano Carranza’s Constitutionalist forces whom they viewed as far more lawless and corrupt. In sum, the family seemed to perceive as friendly the very figures of the revolution...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 February 1971
... the treatment is divided, the first, after describing the river and canal system of the five Valencian huertas , notably that of the lower Guadalaviar (Turia) in the vicinity of the capital city itself, and the adjacent coastal swamplands ( marjals ), goes on to analyze in detail the village and municipal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 726–727.
Published: 01 November 1977
... by the author of the first article. One of the most novel studies discusses the role played by the Indians of Guayaquil and vicinity in the development of the area: Dora León, “Los indios balseros como factor en el desarrollo del puerto de Guayaquil.” Long before the arrival of the Spaniards, these Indians...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 760–761.
Published: 01 November 2007
... established in the vicinity, including the “Queen of the Missions” overseen by Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus, Mission San Jose. Then, as Matovina carefully points out, in 1731 settlers from the Canary Islands, urged on by King Felipe V of Spain, came to the area, founding a town. The church of San Fernando...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 November 1997
... in arid northern Peru and southern Ecuador, typhoons in the vicinity of Hawaii, and dreadful winter storms in southern California. Because this Pacific Ocean anomaly becomes patent around Christmastime, Peruvians have traditionally referred to it as El Niño, the Jesus child. Powerful occurrences of El...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 November 2009
... a top-down approach to analyze the rise of maquiladora industry. Yucatán’s closeness to U.S. Gulf ports has contributed to the expansion of assembly plants in the vicinity of Mérida and throughout the state’s former zona henequenera . Baklanoff’s interest is the policy context of this development...