Direct investment ; Economic sector ; Foreign investment ; Investment ; Latin America ; Regional analysis ; Spanishpeople ; Years 1990-99
The article provides evidence on the rapid expansion of Spanish firms in Latin-America and describes their regional and sectoral patterns. The authors give an explanation for the comparative advantage of Spanish companies. - (AM)
The A. attempts to define the Chilean poet's vision of the intricate relationships among nature, places and peoples in the Americas, with special attention to the Spanish Conquerers. - (DWG)
A mirage of colonial consensus : resettlement schemes in early Spanish Peru
Amerindians ; Colonialism ; Colonization ; Domination ; Historical geography ; Peru ; Production of space ; Settlement ; Sixteenth Century ; Spanishpeople ; Town ; Urbanity
The Spanish-American concept of thier homeland in New Mexico and southern Colorado is the aggregate of the hundreds of patrias chicas to which each person in this group has a sentimental attachment. The environmental adjustment, landscape imprint
, and identity of place of Hispano people are described. - (DWG)
The Hispanic population in the USA has increased from approximately one million in 1930 to ca. 32 million in 1997. Evolution of this population - not all of whom still speak Spanish - is discussed through the twentieth century in terms
of immigration sources. People of Mexican origin dominate in the West; Puerto Ricans in the East; and Cubans in Florida. - (DWG)
Spanish skilled migration to Mexico City: TNC transferees and migrants in the middle
Labour ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Migration ; Skilled labour ; Spanishpeople
Using qualitative information, this paper studies the labour experiences of a group of skilled Spanish migrants in Mexico City. The paper identifies two types of migrants amongst the interviewed Spaniards : TNCs transferees and 'migrants
Assessing early Spanish explorer routes through authentication of rock inscriptions
Arizona ; Discoveries ; Eighteenth Century ; Exploration ; Historical geography ; Petrography ; Rock ; Sixteenth Century ; Spanishpeople ; United States of America
[b6] Old Spanish Trail Association, Page, Etats-Unis
British people ; Eighteenth Century ; Hispanics ; Historical geography ; Honduras ; Trade
Americans traded mainly indigo and cattle for British textiles. Until 1782, when Trujillo was reoccupied by the Spanish forces, the authorities were nearly powerless to stop the contraband trade. Afterward, smuggling continued, but on a much smaller scale
This historical park celebrates the “freedom” that the U.S. brought to the region. But this landscape sits at the nexus of several contested territories. Guam was seized in the 1898 Spanish-American War and experienced 50 years of dictatorship under
the Navy. Disagreements between the park service and the local people added to the contests. The park presents a discourse of American military heroism against the Japanese, at the expense of recognition of Chamorro suffering. It serves as a colonial tool.
, by preferentiel relations with Spanish Pyrenees. Space had a pre-eminent function from which depends the peopling evolution. The study of demographic behaviour shows a differential demographic transition compared with France. Country people is now a minority
Agricultural colonization ; Agricultural product ; Agricultural production ; Argentina ; Central America ; Chile ; Diffusion ; Food consumption ; Mexico ; North America ; Olive tree ; Orchard ; Peru ; South America ; Spanishpeople ; United States