Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 100 Issue 1

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2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993056

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Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s

Silva, Pablo Miguel Sierra

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993067

This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz, the most important port in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial Mexico). Although the raid is well known to historians of...

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Other Geographies of Struggle: Afro-Brazilians and the American Civil War

Mota, Isadora Moura

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993078

This article approaches Brazil as a forgotten Atlantic battleground of the American Civil War. I explore armed confrontations of Union and Confederate vessels along the Brazilian coast as well as slave flight to North American ships to understand how the war inspired slaves to imagine their...

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The Fever of War: Epidemic Typhus and Public Health in Revolutionary Mexico City, 1915–1917

Alexander, Ryan M.

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993089

This article examines Mexico City's typhus epidemic of 1915–16 and makes three central claims. First, the federal response to the outbreak, while laudable in light of the grim circumstances, was disjointed and excessively bureaucratic. Second, the epidemic drew out long-standing stereotypes of...

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Between Autonomy and Acquiescence: Negotiating Rule in Revolutionary Bolivia, 1953–1958

Werner, Bridgette K.

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993100

In January 1958, the townspeople of San Pedro de Buena Vista hunted down and killed peasant leader Narciso Torrico, sparking a wave of violence that provoked repeated state interventions in northern Potosí department, Bolivia. Encouraged by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) state's...

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Thomas Alan Abercrombie (1951–2019)

Cook, Noble David

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993111

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Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Davies, Surekha

2020 Hispanic American Historical Review

doi:10.1215/00182168-7993122