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“Secret judgments of God”: Old World disease in colonial Spanish America
NOBLE DAVID COOK and W. GEORGE LOVELL (eds), "Secret judgments of God": Old World disease in colonial Spanish America, Norman and London, University ofOklahoma Press, 1992, pp. xxiii, 285, £23.50 (0-8061-2372-9). SUZANNE AUSTIN ALCHON, Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador, Cambridge Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. x, 151, £25.00, $39.50 (0-521-40186-0). M...
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The defeat of the Aztecs of Mexico by Hernán Cortés in 1521 was but the beginning of a long and torturous conquest of Central America that did not always result in the mastery of people and production for which the Spanish had hoped. The Maya of the resource-poor Yucatán peninsula were spared the heavy colonial hand that held fast to central Mexico and its riches. In addition, the dense forests...
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In this note I shall continue the study of the geometry of the moduli-space of pairs of points in 3 dimensions. I show that this space, H̃, is the base space of a canonical family of associative k -algebras in dimension 4. The study of the corresponding family of derivations leads to a natural way of introducing an action of the gauge Lie algebras of the Standard Model, in H̃. The results fit wel...
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The institution of sweeping the roads, streets and compounds of public buildings in most towns is a public nuisance for which the city fathers are responsible. The dust rises in the air and falls into the houses within its reach, especially into the rooms on the first floor. All such surfaces which harbour loose dust should be watered before they are swept. The floors should be mopped with wet ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-22.2.415