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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Pulperos rurales: entre la vida privada y la pública

open access: yesMundo Agrario, 2004
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

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Historia colonial de Santo Domingo [PDF]

open access: yesHispanic American Historical Review, 1976
Woodrow Borah, Frank Moya Pons
openaire   +2 more sources

Agriculture and society in Central Mexico : the Valley of Tulancingo in the late colonial period (1700-1825) [PDF]

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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
core  

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS AND LONG-RUN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN COLOMBIA: IS THERE EVIDENCE OF PERSISTENCE? [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Environmental Stress Drives Plasticity in Sexual Bimaturism in the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens Linnaeus, 1758)

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 174, Issue 7, Page 736-749, July 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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