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Where Caciques and mapmakers met : border making in eighteenth-century South America /

"During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted througho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erbig, Jeffrey Alan, Jr (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Series:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations in the Text
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: An Archipelago of Settlements and Tolderías
  • Chapter Two: Projecting Possession
  • Chapter Three: Mapping the Tolderías' Mansion
  • Chapter Four: Simultaneous Sovereignties
  • Chapter Five: Where the Lines End
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
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  • M
  • N
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