Venezuela General History And Natural Features
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Venezuela
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Author : Frederik a Fernald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-18
Venezuela written by Frederik a Fernald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-18 with categories.
This book presents the general history of Venezuela, from its conquest, settlement and colonial period to the modern days; and the natural features of the country. Venezuela is a republic of South America, facing the Caribbean sea. "On his third voyage in 1498 Columbus sighted the Venezuelan coast just south of the Windward Islands. A year later, Alonso de Ojeda saw the mainland at about the same place and skirted the coast for four hundred miles west without finding any important break in a line of mountains which rose almost directly from the sea to a height of three to nine thousand feet, covered to their very tops with luxuriant vegetation. But there was no such barrier as that made by the main Andes on the Pacific; the passes were only half a mile instead of nearly three miles high; the slopes were not dry and desolate as in Peru, or covered with a tangled mass of forest as in Pacific Columbia and Ecuador. Just beyond the harbour where Puerto Cabello now stands, the coast-line turned abruptly to the north-west, leaving the mountains farther inland, but the intervening plain was swampy and uninviting. Still following west, Ojeda rounded Cape San Roman and turned south into the great Gulf of Maracaibo. There he saw Indian villages of houses built on piles near the shallow shores, and he called the place Venezuela-"little Venice,"-a name shortly extended to the whole coast from the mouth of the Orinoco west to the forbidding and uninhabitable peninsula of Goajira, which forms the western promontory of the Gulf of Maracaibo..."
Venezuela General History And Natural Features
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Author : Frederik A. Fernald
language : en
Publisher: LM Publishers
Release Date : 2019-09-04
Venezuela General History And Natural Features written by Frederik A. Fernald and has been published by LM Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-04 with History categories.
This book presents the general history of Venezuela, from its conquest, settlement and colonial period to the modern days; and the natural features of the country. Venezuela is a republic of South America, facing the Caribbean sea. "On his third voyage in 1498 Columbus sighted the Venezuelan coast just south of the Windward Islands. A year later, Alonso de Ojeda saw the mainland at about the same place and skirted the coast for four hundred miles west without finding any important break in a line of mountains which rose almost directly from the sea to a height of three to nine thousand feet, covered to their very tops with luxuriant vegetation. But there was no such barrier as that made by the main Andes on the Pacific; the passes were only half a mile instead of nearly three miles high; the slopes were not dry and desolate as in Peru, or covered with a tangled mass of forest as in Pacific Columbia and Ecuador. Just beyond the harbour where Puerto Cabello now stands, the coast-line turned abruptly to the north-west, leaving the mountains farther inland, but the intervening plain was swampy and uninviting. Still following west, Ojeda rounded Cape San Roman and turned south into the great Gulf of Maracaibo. There he saw Indian villages of houses built on piles near the shallow shores, and he called the place Venezuela—"little Venice,"—a name shortly extended to the whole coast from the mouth of the Orinoco west to the forbidding and uninhabitable peninsula of Goajira, which forms the western promontory of the Gulf of Maracaibo..."
The Path Of The Conquistadores
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Author : Lindon Bates (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Path Of The Conquistadores written by Lindon Bates (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) categories.
Lindon Bates Jr. was an engineer, and the son of an engineer. After graduating from Yale as an engineer in 1902, he joined his father's company and worked on the grade raising of Galveston, Texas, and New York City water tunnel projects. As V.P. of the Bates Engineering Company, and consultant to several international companies, he traveled to remote parts of the world. This book begins with a brief recitation of the general history of Venezuela, from the arrival of Columbus to the triumph of Simon Bolivar. What follows is a travelogue--typical in the early 20th century--wherein the countryside, people and customs are described by a member of the American upper-class. Lacking Twain's humor, the book is mainly an appreciation of the country's natural features. As an engineer, the principal object of interest for the author is the Orinoco River and its tributaries, which are the major transportation system for eastern and interior Venezuela and the Llanos of Colombia.
Historical Dictionary Of Venezuela
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Author : Tomás Straka
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-12-06
Historical Dictionary Of Venezuela written by Tomás Straka and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-06 with History categories.
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Venezuela contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Connecticut School Document
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Author : Connecticut. State Board of Education
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Connecticut School Document written by Connecticut. State Board of Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Education categories.
Connecticut School Document
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Author : Connecticut school document
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Connecticut School Document written by Connecticut school document and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Education categories.
The West Indies
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Author : Silver S.W. and co
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The West Indies written by Silver S.W. and co and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with West Indies categories.
The Magical State
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Author : Fernando Coronil
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-11-10
The Magical State written by Fernando Coronil and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-10 with Business & Economics categories.
In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive presidents appeared as transcendent figures who could magically transform Venezuela into a modern nation. During the 1974-78 oil boom, dazzling development projects promised finally to effect this transformation. Yet now the state must struggle to appease its foreign creditors, counter a declining economy, and contain a discontented citizenry. In critical dialogue with contemporary social theory, Fernando Coronil examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture, and economy, recasting theories of development and highlighting the relevance of these processes for other postcolonial nations. The result is a timely and compelling historical ethnography of political power at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary reflections on modernity and the state.
General History Of The Caribbean
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Author : Sued-Badillo, Jalil
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Release Date : 2003-12-31
General History Of The Caribbean written by Sued-Badillo, Jalil and has been published by UNESCO Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-31 with Political Science categories.
This is the first in a six-volume publication which examines the history of the Caribbean, its people and landscape on a thematic basis. This volume covers the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organisations over time, in and around the region. Topics covered include: ethnohistorical research; biogeographic teleconnections; the Palaeoindians in Cuba and surrounding regions; agricultural societies; indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the hierarchy of chiefdoms; and the development of slavery.
General History Of The Caribbean Unesco
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Author : J. Sued-Badillo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-12
General History Of The Caribbean Unesco written by J. Sued-Badillo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-12 with History categories.
Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.