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Nacs 20th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Nacs 20th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Twenty Years of NACS Scholarship: 500 Years of Struggle and Change
March 25-28, 1992
University of Texas at San Antonio
A Search For Identity: Frances Calderon De La Barca And Life In Mexico, Molly Marie Wood
A Search For Identity: Frances Calderon De La Barca And Life In Mexico, Molly Marie Wood
Master's Theses
Scottish-born Frances Calderon de la Barca, wife of the first Spanish minister to Mexico, recorded her observations and interpretations of mid-nineteenth century Mexico in a series of letters and journals. In 1843, she published Life in Mexico, an edited version of her letters. Acclaimed for its style and descriptive qualities, Life in Mexico also reveals the author's personal struggle to define herself and her role in Mexican society. Life in Mexico provides historians with a unique perspective into Mexico's cultural and ideological relationship with the European and American world.
0547: Morrow Family Papers, 1775-1938, Marshall University Special Collections
0547: Morrow Family Papers, 1775-1938, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
The collection is divided into two series: Series I: Special Commission on Boundaries, Tacna-Arica Arbitration Papers and Series II: Morrow Family Personal Papers.
The first series pertains the 1922 request by Chile and Peru for the United States to arbitrate their land dispute over the provinces of Tacna, Arica, and Tarata. Jay Johnson Morrow was the chairman of the special commission arbitrating the boundary dispute between Chile and Peru from 1925 to 1929. Collection materials include historic maps and treaties, copies of geological surveys, field reports, annexation documents, and reports of arbitration meetings. This series includes materials in Spanish.
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