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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 319–353.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Robert Weis Abstract The 1928 trial of José de León Toral, assassin of Mexican caudillo Álvaro Obregón, afforded President Plutarco Elías Calles the opportunity to show domestic and international audiences that the revolution had yielded a nation of laws predicated on spiritual principles. Summary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Doug Yarrington The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (1): 51–89.
Published: 01 February 1985
... of this region would lie in its livestock. 2 The calculations that he made of the comparative yields of investing in agriculture and livestock (although, as we will see, these are based on excessively pessimistic assessments of agricultural productivity) seem to support his opinion clearly. At least...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 217–238.
Published: 01 May 1973
...Wayne S. Osborn 57 In 1787 several residents of the valley testified that in good years one fanega of maize planted yielded between 400 to 600 fanegas . AGN, Civil, vol. 1624, exp. 1, fols. 2r, 23r-24r. Assuming that the area seeded by one fanega was the standard 8.8 acres, we can...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 459–461.
Published: 01 August 1968
... in the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America which stresses acceleration of food production through a “yield-per-hectare takeoff,” or a constant rise in yields per hectare. The authors list a number of prerequisites to such a takeoff: education of farmers, increased capital inputs, adequate services...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 February 1977
..., the montañeses and vizcaínos, were both Peninsular in their core. The Consulado as a corporation frequently farmed the alcabala for Mexico City and the avería , both yielding substantial surpluses which went to the desagüe, donativos graciosos , loans, and some investments. Revenues were never enough to meet...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 221–257.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Lowell Gudmundson Even so, in light of what is known about the spectacular effect of fertilizer use on yields over the past four decades, the Santo Domingo data show relatively little immediate impact ( Table XII ). Mean yields for those who did use fertilizer were only slightly higher than...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 184.
Published: 01 February 1976
... lands” (p. 191) is an eternal truth. Once they make the soil yield, tenure ends, as the land passes to influential landlords who are always protected by a faceless bureaucracy. It’s no surprise, then, that most of the colonos moving to other less productive soil come from the high-yielding provinces...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 395–396.
Published: 01 May 1969
.... Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 This well-written, important monograph details the results of ten days of excavations made during 1964 in a rock shelter at the base of Arroyo del Palo, Mayarí, Oriente Province. The culture deposit was a meter thick and yielded ceramics, ground stone...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 390.
Published: 01 May 1969
... on intellectual history which Chaunu mentions may be yielding to the rising prestige of social and economic history. The Programa de Historia de América, so promising in 1962, has come to a halt at the point at which it might have given greatest yield. For the rest, the years since 1962 continue to show slow...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 319.
Published: 01 May 1980
... for the very different paths thereafter taken by Mediterranean Islam and the West. Braudel’s emphasis on culturally neutral data, from demography to inflation, yielded underlying unities; Hess’ political and cultural approach expresses the overt differences and particularly how “the main theme of Mediterranean...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 1969
... it be noted, however, that financial organization is not without interest to economic historians. Administrative efficiency affects tax yields, and the evidence which Sánchez-Bella has amassed makes a convincing case for the Hapsburg rulers’ skill in choosing—most of the time—highly competent personnel...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 618–619.
Published: 01 August 1991
... their balance sheets, he calculates their rate of return. This varied from 2.5 percent to 200 percent, the most profitable trades being pepper and other spices. Administration of the Castilian military orders for the crown, a barter to secure payment of some debts, yielded from 50 percent to 15 percent annually...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (4): 707–733.
Published: 01 November 1983
... or rural property that was not burdened with censos in favor of a religious house” and that with “the eighteenth century decline in prices many properties were not worth the value of their indebtedness and their yield could not cover the interest charges.” 2 In Venezuela and Chile, where the weight...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 651–652.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., in yielding an early example of critical thinking about America, Martyr also yielded to Amerigo Vespucci whose less circumspect report gave us the undoubtedly more felicitous designation, America. Oviedo, although probably the least noteworthy of the four writers, emerges as the most interesting subject...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 149–150.
Published: 01 February 1993
.... “To spend years in a low-yield search for individual facts is less significant than to publish a compilation and analysis of the vast amount already worked” (p. 304). Perhaps so. But masses of low-yield data create new data banks, and these could tell us much about the encomienda economy beyond what José...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 552–553.
Published: 01 August 2012
... representing each region’s percentage of silver production in different periods before 1700. The charts on page 347 show that New Spain (i.e., broadly speaking, the center and south of Mexico) yielded some 60 percent of the total of silver between 1580 and 1634. After then, the most productive areas were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 91–115.
Published: 01 February 1989
... further. The survivors of this great shake-out, he prognosticated, would be those most receptive to expert advice, those most aware that “farming is a business that is supposed to yield a profit.” These more calculating planters might well be foreigners, since foreign capital would accelerate agricultural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 2008
... to yield new navigational techniques and understandings, and as a hub for the institutionalization of scientific knowledge that would advance Spain’s imperial agenda. Chapter 3, on how Spain organized and exploited nature by bringing together scholars and artisans, makes for interesting reading...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 558–560.
Published: 01 August 1973
... in Zinacantan is the milpa system, and the bulk of Cancian’s book details precisely the farming techniques, organization of labor, labor input, relations with land owners, crop yields, locations of fields, transportation problems, marketing, etc., all of which factors figure prominently in the milpero’s world...
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