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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 February 1964
...Benjamin Frankel Los Welser en la conquista de Venezuela . By Friede Juan . Caracas and Madrid , 1961 . Ediciones Edime . Colección Grandes Libros Venezolanos . Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Indices . Pp. 656 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 704–706.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Spencer Tyce styce@governors.school spencertyce@gmail.com German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory . By Giovanna Montenegro . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 282–283.
Published: 01 May 1963
... of the conquistador Nicolás Féderman follows this pattern, but according to Juan Friede his tragedy is compounded by the fact that he was a German and an agent of the Welsers of Augsburg. As a German he was resented by the Spaniards, who regarded the conquest as a national undertaking, and he was suspected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 May 2006
... with diversified portfolios. Compared to the Genoese, Germans did not feature prominently in early America, except for the early days of Venezuela. As is well known, the conquest of that province took place under the auspices of a group of German bankers, led by the Welser firm. Otte explains the German failures...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 February 2006
... to boycott the Welsers, leaving all Africans unsold. The payment problem also plagued other commercial branches, since buyers of imported goods were usually only able to pay with the future earnings of agricultural or mining enterprises. Lack of capital, combined with rapid economic expansion, created...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 February 1968
.... In 1528 Charles V, who was hard-pressed by his creditors, the Welsers of Augsburg, gave them all of Venezuela. Thus Germans, not Spaniards, guided the destiny of Venezuela, or at least the western part, from 1528 to 1546. The second volume, number 55 in the series, contains chapters from Girolamo...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 627–628.
Published: 01 August 1991
... history. The first volume concerns itself with Nicolas Féderman (Nikolaus Federmann), one of the many who sought El Dorado. The Augsburg banking house of Bartolomäus Welser was given the right to govern Venezuela by Emperor Charles V in 1528 and sent Féderman to assist the governor, Ambrosius Ehinger...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 716–718.
Published: 01 November 2023
... scholarship on colonial Venezuela during the first half of the sixteenth century. Hess's introduction provides context about Federmann (1506–42), a German-born operative of the Welser Company of Augsburg who searched for a passage to the Pacific Ocean and El Dorado. Hess explains the relationship between...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): VII–VIII.
Published: 01 May 1996
...: die Modernisierung des guatemaltekischen Staates unter Jorge Ubico , 1931-1944. Eine regionalgeschichtliche Studie am Beispiel der Alta Verapaz (1993); and, with Mark Häberlein, Die Erben der Welser. Der Karibikhandel der Augsburger Firma Obwexer im Zeitalter der Revolutionen (1995). ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 344–345.
Published: 01 May 1996
... chronologically. Two papers on periodization of Mesoamerican archaeology are followed by four in the category of “conquest period,” of which one treats the Columbian fort of Navidad, another the question of the literary genre of Guamán Poma’s work, a third the Welsers of Venezuela, and the last the chronicles...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 284–286.
Published: 01 May 1968
... the legend was so remarkably durable, the list of entradas made in its pursuit is correspondingly long. The author gives substantial discussion to the entries of Diego de Ordaz, Alonso de Herrera, the Welser conquistadores (Ambrosius Alfinger, Georg von Speyer, Nicolaus Federman, Philipp von Hutten...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 403–404.
Published: 01 August 1967
... its outstanding, ordinary, and inferior members. Printing and factual errors are few for a work of such great length. Typographical errors in dates appear on pages 74, 91, 93, 143, 201, 211, 276, 314, 655, 730, 773, and 884. The Welsers are erroneously placed in Hamburg (p. 23), the Guaraní...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 1991
... certain works stand out: Los quimbayas bajo la dominación española; Los andaki; Los Welser en la colonización de Venezuela; Vida y obra de don Juan del Valle, obispo de Popayán y protector de los indios; Bartolomé de Las Casas, precursor del anticolonialismo; La otra verdad, la independencia americana...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (4): 450–466.
Published: 01 November 1946
... with the expedition of Adelantado Pedro de Mendoza in 1535, as well as with events for years after. Schmidel, a Suabian soldier originally in the employ of the Welsers, wrote in Europe after retiring to his home. In Diaz de Guzm&n s day his work had been published only in Latin and German. Probably Diaz de Guzmdn...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (2): 313–335.
Published: 01 May 1971
... a rivalry of European banking houses, the Fuggers and the Welsers. This thesis is not logically sustained and should have been discarded. Nevertheless, after all has been said in criticism, the biography by Parr is probably the best of the genre done in English since Guillemard. It is especially valuable...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 3–39.
Published: 01 February 2010
... most likely played in instigating the writing and publishing of the Historia medicinal . The discovery and commercialization of new American drugs had become a lucrative enterprise during the sixteenth century. 17 Notable examples were the German banking families Fugger and Welser, who made...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (4): 657–695.
Published: 01 November 1987
... the Welser bankers lent money to the crown at an interest rate of 9 percent and the Fuggers later accepted juros at a rate of 6.25 percent, the forced loans taken from private citizens cost only about 3 percent. The total amount of private gold that was transported on the four ships and subject...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 293–340.
Published: 01 August 1964
... fundación de Bogotá (Bogotá: Ediciones del Banco de la República, 1960); Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada a través de documentos históricos. Estudio biográfico, 1509-1550 (Bogotá: Biblioteca de Historia Nacional, vol. XCV, Academia Colombiana de Historia, 1960); Los Welser en la conquista de Venezuela...
