Intendant

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INTENDANT. One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, department, or public business.

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Cotton, on the other hand, was obtained in exchange for yerba, generating greater pressure on the work of indigenous women in the mate plantations, especially in the towns of the Intendancy of Paraguay.

Politicas mercantiles en espacios reduccionales fronterizos: Modelos, reapropiaciones y disputas (Rio de la Plata, siglo xviii)

(37) The intendancy offered scholarships to island students interested in pursuing teaching degrees in Bogota, Cartagena, or Medellin, thus competing for children whose parents considered sending them to study in Jamaica or the United States.

A transnational world fractured but not forgotten: British West Indian migration to the Colombian islands of San Andres and providence

The public edifices, such as the Government building, the Intendancy, the Counsel building, and the most solid structures, like the new church, the new Corps de Garde, the powder magazine and private houses, were no more than heaps.

The tragic annals of Haiti: devastating earthquakes have been chronicled on the island of Hispaniola for the past 500 years

It is titled "Report presented to the Intendancy of the Province of Concepcion, by Ambrosio Lozier, Simon Rodriguez and Juan Jose Arteaga, nominated to recognize the city of Concepcion and its surroundings after the earthquake of February 20, 1835" (Rodriguez, 1835) and denoted herein as "Rodriguez' report".

Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Simon Rodriguez met in Concepcion, Chile, after the earthquake of February 20, 1835

In the late 1980s, the ELN's size was thought to be 500 with its theater of operations extending to vast stretches of Colombia's eastern plains and portions of the departments of Norte de Santander, Santander, Bolivar, Cauca, and Antioquia, and the intendancy of Arauca.

Enduring freedom; the FARC of other terrorist groups in Colombia and South America: are we moving closer to the next phase in the war on terror?

(11.) Rene Velazquez, "The Intendancy of Alejandro Ramirez in Puerto Rico" (Ph.D.

Moses E. Levy of Florida: A Jewish Abolitionist Abroad

These, along with the province of Soconusco (on the Pacific coast), were united in 1786 into the intendancy known as Chiapas.

Imperial politics and local economy in colonial Central America: 1670-1770

"The Intendancy's net profit in 1084 was 1,600,000 strings of cash".

Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224

On the one hand, "horizontal" agreements among transport firms in a given market are intuitively anticompetitive and monopolistic intendancy. This is especially so since there is little evidence of economies of organizational scale in transport.