Research Catalog

Title

A tropical plains frontier : the Llanos of Colombia, 1531-1831 / Jane M. Rausch.

Author

Rausch, Jane M., 1940-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

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Details

Description

xv, 317 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• To 1832
• Indians of South America > Colombia > History
• Indians of South America > Missions > History. > Colombia
• Llanos > Colombia > History
• Colombia > History > To 1810
• Colombia > History > War of Independence, 1810-1822
• Colombia > History > 1822-1832

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 293-304.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Llanos on the eve of discovery -- Establishing the frontier, 1531-1650 -- The missionary thrust, 1650-1767 -- Crisis in Casanare, 1767 and 1781 -- The mission renewed, 1767-1810 -- Ranches, towns, and Mestizaje -- The wars of independence, 1810-1821 -- The frontier transformed, 1819-1831 -- The Llanos frontier in comparative perspective.

ISBN

0826307612

LCCN

^^^84013072^

OCLC

• 10912599
• SCSB-10692355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library