Mapping the Country of Regions : The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia

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 youn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nancy P. Appelbaum
Format: Book
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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