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The Virgin and the land surveyor: Andean pueblo boundary making in the Highlands of late colonial Ecuador 处女和土地测量员:厄瓜多尔晚期殖民地高地上安第斯普韦布洛人的边界划定
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104032
A. Dueñas
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Japanese objects in New Spain: nanban art and beyond 新西班牙的日本物件:南班艺术及其超越
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104033
Sonia I. Ocaña Ruiz, Rie Arimura
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From hunters to hell hounds: the dogs of Columbus and transformations of the human-canine relationship in the early Spanish Caribbean 从猎人到地狱猎犬:哥伦布的狗和早期西班牙加勒比地区人犬关系的转变
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104035
J. Ensminger
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Foreword 前言
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104031
Dana Leibsohn
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Marvels of medicine: literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America 医学奇迹:早期殖民地西班牙美洲的文学和科学探索
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104046
W. Eamon
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Un cursus honorum entre dos mundos: los magistrados borbónicos del gobierno de Indias (1701–1808) 两个世界之间的荣誉诅咒:印度政府的波旁治安官(1701 - 1808)
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104039
Philippe Castejón
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Polemics, literature, and knowledge in eighteenth-century Mexico. A new world for the Republic of Letters 十八世纪墨西哥的政治学、文学和知识。文学共和国的新世界
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2036025
B. Hamnett
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From the galleons to the Highlands: slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas 从大帆船到高地:西班牙美洲的奴隶贸易路线
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104045
R. S. France
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Hispanic Baroque ekphrasis: Góngora, Camargo, Sor Juana 西班牙裔巴洛克风格ekphrasis:Góngora,Camargo,Sor Juana
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2104047
Felipe Valencia
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Las imágenes del miedo en De peste variolarum, de Juan Ignacio Molina: affectus, evidentia, scientia 胡安·伊格纳西奥·莫利纳(Juan Ignacio Molina)的《瘟疫中的恐惧形象:影响、证据、科学》(affectus, evidentia, scientia)
IF 0.4 2区 历史学
Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/10609164.2022.2069406
María José Brañes
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