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Ciudad Colonial (Spanish for "Colonial City") is the historic central neighborhood of the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas. The area has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [1]
The Thirteen Colonies made wide use of credit.Credit was used for domestic and overseas goods, as well as a method of repayment. [1] Credit allowed colonists to defer their payments for goods and services until a later time, which was a more favourable payment option than cash or barter.
Long title: An Act to authorise the making of advances for aiding and developing agriculture and industry in certain colonies and territories, to provide for the extension of the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 to 1900, to stock forming part of the public debt of certain protected and mandated territories, and to amend the Palestine and East Africa Loans Act, 1926, and section eleven of the Trusts ...
The Colonial Pact, or Metropolitan Commercial Exclusive, was a system of laws and regulations that the colonizing nations imposed on their colonies, meaning: The colonizers were the countries that benefited from the products and economic activity of their colonial territories.
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...
The Société d'Études Coloniales (lit. ' Society for Colonial Studies ' ) was a society that promoted the creation and maintenance of Belgian overseas colonies which was established in 1894. For some years it was headquartered in the Hôtel Ravenstein [ fr ] in Brussels (along with similar groups such as the Cercle Africain and the Ligue ...
Tünnermann Bernheim, Carlos: "Historia de la Universidad en América Latina. De la Época Colonial a la Reforma de Córdoba", Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1991, ISBN 9977-30-167-0; Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): A History of the University in Europe. Vol.
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting a part of the historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia.Its 301-acre (122 ha) historic area includes several hundred restored or recreated buildings from the 18th century, when the city was the capital of the Colony of Virginia; 17th-century, 19th-century, and Colonial Revival structures; and more ...