...Jordana Dym Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia . By Appelbaum Nancy P. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 304 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2017 by...

.... Preceded by a useful and well-documented introduction by Denise Helly, The Cuba Commission Report is a unique oral history of Chinese indentured workers in the early 1870s. The commission, composed of a Chinese official responsible for the educational and cultural welfare of overseas Chinese plus a...

...Lester D. Langley W. Cameron Farben and the Hoover Commissions to Haiti (1930) . By Spector Bobert M. . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 1985 . Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 257 . Cloth. $26.50 . Paper. $14.75 . Copyright 1986 by Duke...

... events as overlapping and interrelated. The commission’s texts and images linked a catastrophic interpretation of geologic origins to historia patria (patriotic history). The commissioners merged the wars of conquest and independence into a two-act drama enacted on a singular territorial stage. Their...

...Jeffrey A. Erbig, Jr. Abstract During the second half of the eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain commissioned two mapping expeditions to determine a border between Brazil and Spanish viceroyalties, agreeing for the first time to define territorial possession through collaborative cartographic...

... . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Joel Wolfe’s book offers an imaginative reappraisal of labor organizing among workers in São Paulo’s textile and metalworking industries. According to Wolfe, shop-level “factory commissions,” formed in the 1910s by women textile workers, came to have an...

... . xx , 312 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 This is the story of Brazil’s “Bipartite Commission,” which met secretly between 1970 and 1974, during the height of military rule in the country. The Commission, over the course of some 24...

... 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Anyone who has studied the early history of Texas has stumbled at one point or another upon the figure of Jean Louis Berlandier. This Frenchman is best remembered as a botanist embedded — as we would say today — in the Comisión de Límites (Boundary Commission...

... Estados Unidos de Méjico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Rebert picks up the story of the two boundary commissions—the U.S. Boundary Commission and the Mexican Comisión de Límites— created by each government for the purposes of mapping and surveying the line. She then follows the “cooperation and...

... January 27, 1932; his mural commission at Rockefeller Center, on which he began work in March 1933 but was not permitted to complete and which was purposefully destroyed in February 1934; and finally, in November 1934, the re-creation of the obliterated Rockefeller Center mural in Mexico City's newly...