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Café con leche
For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost everyone is of mixed blood. It also expresses a popular belief that within their blended society Venezuelans have achieved a racial democracy in which people of all races live free from prejudice and discrimination. Whether or not historical facts actually support this popular perception is the question Winthrop Wright explores in this study. Wright's research suggests that, contrary to popul...
Agricultural History
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Venezuela
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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Historical Dictionary of Venezuela
This work is an expansion and revision of the 1971 edition. The alphabetically arranged entries include information about persons, places, events, and organizations in Venezuela through 1990. There is now information about the political antecedents of the states, the federal territories, the Federal District, and the major and historically significant cities. It contains a greatly expanded bibliography of books in English and Spanish, and a chronology of significant events in Venezuelan history has been added.
