Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Colombia: A Country Study
Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
COLOMBIA
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Pages : 100
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Colombia
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Mapping the Country of Regions
Author: Nancy P. Appelbaum
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
Colombia
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area Studies
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Colombia
Author: Library of Congress (Etats-Unis). Federal research division
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Colombia
Author: Howard I. Blutstein
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Colombia: A Country Study
Author: Blutstein
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Pages :
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Colombia
Author: Igor S. Olejnik
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Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Colombia - A Country Study Guide
Author: Global Investment and Business Center, Inc. Staff
Publisher: International Business Publications USA
ISBN: 9780739714362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: International Business Publications USA
ISBN: 9780739714362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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