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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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El gran comerciante y el sentido de la circulación monetaria en el Rio de la Plata colonial tardío [PDF]
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Gelman, Jorge Daniel
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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Pulperos rurales: entre la vida privada y la pública
Este trabajo estudia la vida privada del pulpero rural de la campaña de Buenos Aires y las actividades que desarrolla cuando no se encuentra frente a su negocio.
Julián Carrera
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Disaster Schooling Experiences and Emergent Crises: Lessons From Puerto Rico
ABSTRACT This paper examines the disaster schooling experiences of Puerto Rican educators, families, and students across multiple crises following Hurricane Maria. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic research, we analyze how schooling unfolded across disasters and how long‐standing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities shaped responses. Findings
Melissa Colón +2 more
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Historia colonial de Santo Domingo [PDF]
Woodrow Borah, Frank Moya Pons
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Agriculture and society in Central Mexico : the Valley of Tulancingo in the late colonial period (1700-1825) [PDF]
This study provides a first approach to the economic and social history of the Valley of Tulancingo in the late colonial period. In examining the development of this agricultural area of central Mexico, the author discusses the broader transformations
Navarrete Gómez, Carlos David
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS AND LONG-RUN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN COLOMBIA: IS THERE EVIDENCE OF PERSISTENCE? [PDF]
A recent body of literature has claimed that differences in long-run economic performance within the Americas stem from the different institutional structures established during colonial times.
Camilo García Jimeno
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We measured the plasticity in sexual bimaturism (SBM; differences between sexes in the timing of sexual maturity) in the black soldier fly (BSF) by exposing larvae to nutrient availability and humidity stress. Our results show that SBM can range between protandry and protogyny depending on the environmental quality. Additionally, we found the degree of
Luis Rodrigo Arce‐Valdés +4 more
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