TABASCO

täbäsˈkō, state (1990 pop. 1,501,744), 9,783 sq mi (25,338 sq km), E Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. Villahermosa is the capital. Tabasco is predominantly a tropical plain, once densely forested, that is broken by numerous rivers, swamps, and lagoons. The climate is sultry, and rainfall in some areas exceeds 200 in. (508 cm) annually. Although Tabasco has modern roads and railways, rivers (especially the Grijalva and the Usumacinta) are still used for travel and transport. Tropical agriculture (bananas, cacao, sugarcane, hardwoods, and fruits) and cattle raising were the leading economic activities, but rich oil fields discovered along the coast have become Tabasco's economic mainstay. The area, first explored by the Spanish in 1518, was conquered in 1530 by Francisco de Montejo. During the 17th and early 18th cent., Tabasco was contested between Spain and England. From 1921 to 1935 it was the virtual fiefdom of the caudillo Tomás Garrido Canabal.

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books on: Tabasco  - 612 results

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La Venta, Tabasco: a Study of Olmec Ceramics and Art
Book by Philip Drucker; Government Printing Office, 1952
Subjects: Pottery--Mexico--Tabasco (State), Tabasco (Mexico : State)--Antiquities
...ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 153 LA VENTA, TABASCO A STUDY OF OLMEC CERAMICS AND ART By...herewith a manuscript entitled "La Venta, Tabasco: A Study of Olmec Ceramics and Art...59. Left , Monument 8, Villahermosa, Tabasco. Right , Celt of dark stone, from vicinity...
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Excavations at La Venta, Tabasco, 1955
Book by Philip Drucker, Robert F. Heizer, Robert J. Squier; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1959
Subjects: Indians Of Mexico--Antiquities, Tabasco (Mexico : State)--Antiquities
...BULLETIN 170 EXCAVATIONS AT LA VENTA TABASCO, 1955 By PHILIP DRUCKER, ROBERT F...manuscript entitled Excavations at La Venta, Tabasco, 1955 ," by Philip Drucker, Robert...Mexico 290 EXCAVATIONS AT LA VENTA, TABASCO, 1955 By PHILIP DRUCKER, ROBERT F...
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Social Uses and Radio Practices: The Use of Participatory Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico
Book by Lucila Vargas; Westview Press, 1995
Subjects: Radio Broadcasting--Social Aspects--Mexico--Chiapas--Case Studies, Radio In Rural Development--Mexico--Chiapas--Case Studies
...Showing the Location of Margaritas City, Tabasco, and Madero 132...sample of 21 families selected from Colonia Tabasco and Colonia Madero, two Tojolabal villages...describe two of their villages, Colonia Tabasco and Colonia Madero. Following is a brief...
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Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture - Vol. 2
Book by Michael S. Werner; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Civilization--Encyclopedias
...Hernan Cortes in a group of 20 women by Chontal Maya on the Tabasco coast in the spring of 1519. She served as interpreter for...Nahuatl-speaking rulers of a city in the area of the present-day state of Tabasco geographically far from Tenochtitlan, the Mexicas center...
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Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914
Book by William Gervase Clarence-Smith; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Chocolate Industry--History, Cocoa Trade--History
...Arcila Farias 1950:281). Nevertheless, Tabasco was sending coffee as well as cocoa to...Brungardt 1974:78). Cocoa producers in Tabasco also prospered, sending some 300 tonnes...From 1778, it was no longer mandatory for Tabascos cocoa to be sent east to Campeche for...
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Julieta Campos and the Repeating Island
Journal article by Ann Marie Fallon; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Campos, Julieta--Works, Death by Water (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, La imagen en el espejo (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Muerte por agua (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
...between Mexico City and Villahermosa, Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico, when her husband...Continuing Complaint of the Nation) and Tabasco, un jaguar despertado: alternativas a la pobreza (1996) (Tabasco, a Jaguar Awakened: Alternatives to Poverty...
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Nature Regimes in Southern Mexico: A History of Power and Environment (1)
Journal article by Nora Haenn; Ethnology, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Ecology and history--Mexico, Ethnology--Mexico, Mexico--History
...migrants from Mexicos states of Veracruz and Tabasco.) This material revealed a different...offered by a Mestizo from Mexicos state of Tabasco. Similar advancement was unlikely for...Balancan in the states of Veracruz and Tabasco, respectively. Chicle collection in Mexico...
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Gendered Nationalism in Xicotencatl
Journal article by Jayson T. Gonzales Sae-Saue; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: American fiction--Analysis, American fiction--Jewish authors, Jewish American fiction--Analysis, Jicotencal (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Nationalism--Portrayals
...to be a slave of the cacique of Tabasco. He gave her to Hernan Cortes, after the...conquistador who observed the state of Tabasco transfer Marina over to Cortes after it...de guerra, esclave del cacique de Tabasco cuya libertad la puso en el dominio...
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Contexts of Mexican Policy
Journal article by Soledad Loaeza; Challenge, Vol. 38, 1995
Subjects: Mexico--Politics and government, Political reform--Analysis
...revise electoral results in Chiapas and Tabasco, where they have refused to accept the...of the prista governors of Chiapas and Tabasco. Then, the PRI turned into the main opposition...political initiative, and the priistas of Tabasco organized what could be interpreted as...
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Shifting Borders, Free Trade, and Frontier Narratives: Us, Canada, and Mexico
Journal article by Pamela Maria Smorkaloff; American Literary History, Vol. 6, 1994
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism
...Americas 24.6 ( 1991): 22-29. Carballo, Emanuel. Notas de un francotirador . Tabasco, Mex.: Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, Instituto de Cultura de Tabasco, 1990 . Fernandez de Rafael Castro. "Interpreting the Salinas Administrations...
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Zapata's Children Defending the Land and Human Rights in the Countryside
Magazine article by John Ross; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 30, 1997
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...farmlands and marine life in the state of Tabasco. BY JOHN ROSS On February 16, 1995...Platano y Cacao, in the southern state of Tabasco, blew sky-high. Nine people were killed...to a petition filed by an independent Tabasco human rights committee led by the parish...
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Mexico's Historic Protest
Magazine article by John Ross; The Progressive, Vol. 69, July 2005
Subjects: Mexico City, Mexico--Political aspects, Obrador, Andres Manuel Lopez--Political activity, Political history--Analysis
...Peje," a gar-like fish from his native Tabasco state). His opponents were trying to oust...Obrador made his bones in the swamps of Tabasco, a sweltering oil-rich entity that is...a month. When the farmers returned to Tabasco empty-handed, they were attacked by PRI...
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Writing at the Start
Magazine article by Chris Hardman; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, September 2003
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Olmecs--History
...writing ever found in the Americas. A ceramic cylinder seal and greenstone plaque fragments found at San Andres--in the state of Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico--date from 650 B.C. and were probably used for body decoration during a ceremonial feast, according to...
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The Catholic Church in Mexico
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 290, Summer 2008
Subjects: Catholic Church--History, Catholic Church--Membership, Evangelism--History, Evangelistic work--History, Mexico--Description and travel, Mexico--Religious aspects
...the novel based on Greenes travel in the southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas in the spring of 1938, his notes of which were...already been described. In certain states such as Veracruz, Tabasco and Chiapas the Church virtually disappeared as an organisation...
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Chiapas: An Uprising Born of Despair
Magazine article by Michael Renner; World Watch, Vol. 10, January 1997
Subjects: Chiapas, Mexico--Social aspects, Economic policy--Mexico
...Like Chiapas, the states of Guerrero, Tabasco, and Oaxaca have become increasingly militarized. In Guerrero, Tabasco, Puebla, and in the more northern state...rebellions have broken out. In early 1996, Tabasco was the scene of widespread unrest in...
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newspaper articles on: Tabasco  - 388 results

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Tabasco Heats Up Competition
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 6, 2008
Subjects: Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta, Georgia), Soft drink industry
Tabasco Heats Up Competition. ASK Sir Stuart Rose why Marks Spencer is departing from its policy ofselling only own-label products and youll get a lecture on Tabasco sauce. Its one of those things he simply cant believe the store has survived 124years without. Next week M S will remedy...
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Pills, Patches Pitched as Hangover Aids; SoberX, Chaser, Beer Neutralizers Join Aspirin, Raw Eggs, Tabasco
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 31, 2004
...Pitched as Hangover Aids; SoberX, Chaser, Beer Neutralizers Join Aspirin, Raw Eggs, Tabasco. Byline: Marguerite Higgins, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Aspirin. Tabasco sauce. Raw eggs. Coffee. Water. These are the tried-and-true remedies thousands...
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Pearls for the Palate: Oysters of Northwest Shine in Stews, Sauces
Newspaper article by Kathy Casey; The Washington Times, January 15, 1997
Subjects: Tabasco
...teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce 1 cup cooked large-diced or quartered...then reserved oyster liquor mixture, Tabasco and potatoes. Bring to boil. Mix cornstarch...pieces 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh...
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Shell out When Fresh Crab's Up for Grabs
Newspaper article by Phil Vickery; The People (London, England), August 2, 1998
Subjects: Tabasco
...chopped 12 tsp caster sugar drop of Tabasco sauce 4 tsp tomato ketchup dash of...vinegar, chopped shallot, caster sugar, Tabasco, tomato ketchup, Worcestershire sauce...prevent discolouration. Beware of the Tabasco! It really is very hot and more than one...
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Yeea[euro]"Haw! Some like It Hota[euro][bar]
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 4, 2005
Subjects: Sauces
...new fire-y booze and appetizers at the Tabasco aYee Haw!!! Burn Survivora bar tour, held last weekend in Metrowalk, Ortigas. Tabasco, the pepper sauce from Avery Island in...Manila and to punch up their menu using Tabasco hot sauces. "We want to establish Tabascoas...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tabasco  - 15 results

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Tabasco
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TABASCO tabas ko, state (1990 pop. 1,501,744), 9,783 sq mi...on the Gulf of Campeche. Villahermosa is the capital. Tabasco is predominantly a tropical plain, once densely forested...some areas exceeds 200 in. (508 cm) annually. Although Tabasco has modern roads and railways, rivers (especially the Grijalva...
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Olmec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tropical coastal plain of the contemporary states of Veracruz and Tabasco, between 1300 and 400 b.c. The term is also used to refer to...1000 400 b.c.) in Veracruz, and La Venta (1000 600 b.c.) in Tabasco. At the time of their apogee, these three settlements were...
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LÓpez Obrador, AndrÉs Manuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) in the state of Tabasco, but he left the PRI and in 1988 helped form the leftist Democratic...party (PRD). In 1996 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Tabasco governorship, but fraud may have contributed to his defeat...
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Villahermosa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VILLAHERMOSA ve yaarmo sa, city (1990 pop. 261,321), capital of Tabasco state, SE Mexico, on the Grijalva River. The city, which has good communications facilities, is the commercial and distribution...
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Garrido Canabal, TomÁs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GARRIDO CANABAL, TOMAS tomas gare tho kanabal , 1891 1943, Mexican caudillo , governor of Tabasco (1921 35). A fanatical anticlericalist, he enthusiastically supported Calles s war against the Cristeros, largely peasant rebels...
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