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Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 1. Map of Lima, Peru, in 1562. Upper miasma symbol shows butcher yards; bottom miasma symbol placed over Plazuela de María Escobar. Also shown, from right to left, are Hospital La Caridad, Hospital San Andrés, and Hospital Santa Ana. More
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Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 2. Map of Lima, Peru, in 1599, showing three noxious entities: Hospital San Lázaro, the butcher yards, and the tanneries, all located in San Lázaro. More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 653.
Published: 01 November 1964
... suffering terror, exhaustion, and starvation. The account is a sweat-stained, water-logged, insect-infested, almost yard-by-yard description. They spend thirty-two days traveling 75 miles up the river Azul in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, only to become lost in a poorly mapped region. Once the Mayan ruins...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 August 1978
... be studied. Cabrera’s 283-page Verdad aclarada is a fine specimen of the official’s-defense-of-his-conduct genre of colonial writing. Cabrera fights his critic, fiscal Martín de Solis, yard-by-yard over the condition of the tunnel which Cabrera was converting to a canal. The two final reports are regidor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 545–579.
Published: 01 November 1972
... idiosyncrasy. At Guanajuato, little oxidation occurred; nevertheless, its mainly sulphide ores had experienced a hypogene concentration process almost to surface levels. At Potosí the conical shape of its isolated peak facilitated the formation of an oxidized encasement 250 yards deep, beneath which lay a zone...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 665–681.
Published: 01 November 1970
... yards in the ease of the Valenciana in Guanajuato—and long drainage tunnels or adits, cut beneath the lode, were more often used. The famous Veta Vizcaína adit, for example, was extended to 2881 yards. 8 To service the deeper shafts more powerful whims (mule-drawn windlass hoists) were required...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 447–474.
Published: 01 August 2004
... required by the occasion.” 2 In 1622, Philip IV was not in Lima. In his stead, a “lifelike copy of the King” ( un trasunto vivo del Rey ) measuring two yards tall by one and a half yards wide, with an additional half yard for its frame, was carried to the Plaza Mayor for the King’s proclamation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Figure 1. Map of Lima, Peru, in 1562. Upper miasma symbol shows butcher yards; bottom miasma symbol placed over Plazuela de María Escobar. Also shown, from right to left, are Hospital La Caridad, Hospital San Andrés, and Hospital Santa Ana. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 1968
... the apple tree, the apples fell in the neighbor’s yard. Faust also feels that Lacerda today, as an enemy of the military and the revolution, is in a false position for the first time in his entire career. One sentence in the book does more to clarify the operations of Brazilian politicians than ten...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 458–459.
Published: 01 August 1962
... that will be remembered. The narrative begins on a noisy May morning in 1920 at a railroad yard in Mexico City as Don Venustiano Carranza, the deposed president, prepared for his hasty departure from the capital. The forces of General Álvaro Obregón were moving rapidly down the paths that led into the valley. The scene...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 154–155.
Published: 01 February 1987
... or when the galleons were forced to use Cádiz as a port. The Council of Indies and the maestros mayores sent from Seville to the building yards in Vizcaya tried to remedy this situation, but with little success. This volume has many useful illustrations, tables, and graphs summarizing a large volume...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 593–594.
Published: 01 August 1970
... at Peninsular or Indian destinations. Also it cost more to repair and refit them in Brazilian yards than at Lisbon or Goa, and the king’s officers always suspected that the naus’ crews used their opportunities in Brazilian harbors for illicit trade. For their part, skippers on the India run justified...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 771–772.
Published: 01 November 1983
... parts of colonial Spanish America; so, too, did the finances of the smaller Cuban exchequers outside Havana and the municipal finances of Havana itself. Chapter 8 concentrates on the docks and naval yards of Havana, its shipbuilding, ships stores, dock workers, and artisans. Revival in the shipyards...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 February 1985
... Corps Historical and Museums Division in the Navy Yard. A surprising number of retiring marines in the 1960s had their first assignment “down in the tropics” in Haiti or the Dominican Republic. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 166–167.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in the small yards behind their houses, specifically because they liked to observe the public affairs of the city? Side commentary in court cases I have read in Ecuadorian archives lends more weight to the latter interpretation than to the former. Only in his conclusion does Jamieson provide concrete...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 486–487.
Published: 01 August 1982
...), and recovery from the desperate straits of the late seventeenth century. English shipbuilders were brought into Spanish and American yards, the officer corps was professionalized, and new sources of materials—especially in the American colonies—were systematically explored. Havana became the most important...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 774–775.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... This project was aimed mostly at attracting and retaining this essential tier of managers. The construction of homes for families and units for bachelors within settlements marked by neatly trimmed yards and amenities such as schools, clubs, and athletic facilities were the important elements of this strategy...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 762–764.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Silver exports were minimal prior to 1820, by land or sea, but in the first decades of the republic they grew rapidly by both means. One problem in writing mining history concerns how to communicate the reality of a ton of rock. A cubic meter (1.3 cubic yards) of copper ore will weigh roughly one...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (4): 597–599.
Published: 01 November 1964
... the first accounts of the founders of many of the empires of the world, as they bully and shoulder their way into the comparative luxury of the valley of the Huatanay. Their squabbles within that teacup Andean valley, as they push a few hundred yards at a time into more favorable territory, seems to presage...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 448–450.
Published: 01 August 1963
... children alive. It describes her shack with its rotting boards and cardboard roof, the tin cans that served for dishes, the mosquitoes killed by the seemingly risky process of running a burning newspaper over the walls, the mud and the stinking garbage in the yards. It tells of the favela’s sickly children...