Böcker av Nancy P. Appelbaum

Colombia's western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants. This book examines these legends, showing how local communities, settlers, speculators, and politicians struggled over jurisdictional boundaries and the privatization of communal lands in the creation of the Coffee Region.

The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, was one of Latin America's most extensive. In this history of the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men delineated the country's territorial and racial composition.