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Dunn, Mary Maples was born on April 6, 1931 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Frederic Arthur and Eva (Moore) Maples.
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 'BOOK II. GENERAL POPULATION OF NEW SPAIN. DIVISION OF THE INHABITANTS INTO CASTS. CHAPTER IV. General enumeration in 1793. Progress of the population in the ten following years. Proportion of births to burials. The physical view which we have been rapidly sketching proves, that in Mexico, as elsewhere, na ture has very unequally distributed her benefits. But men, unable to appreciate the wisdom of this distribution, neglect the riches which are within their reach. Collected together on a small extent of territory, in the centre of the kingdom, on the very ridge of the Cordillera, they have allowed the regions of the greatest fertility, and the nearest to the coast, to remain waste and uninhabited. The population of the United States is concentrated in the Atlantic division, that is to say, the long and narrow district between the sea and the Alleghany mountains. In the capitania general of Caraccas, the only inhabited and well cultivated districts are those of the maritime regions: in Mexico improvenorthern parts of Asia, in their progress towards the south never quitted the ridge of the Cordillera, preferring these cold regions to the excessive heat of the cOast. That part of Anahuac which composed the kingdom of Montezuma on the arrival of Cortez did not equal in surface the eighth part of the present kingdom of New Spain. The kings of Acolhuacan, Tlacopan, and Michuacan, were independent princes. The great cities of the Aztecs, and the best cultivated territories were in the environs of the capital of Mexico, particularly in the fine valley of Tenochlitlan. This alone was a sufficient reason to induce the Spaniards to establish there the centre of their new empire; but they loved also to inhabit plains whose climate resembled that of their own country, and w...
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Dunn, Mary Maples was born on April 6, 1931 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Frederic Arthur and Eva (Moore) Maples.
Bachelor, College William and Mary, 1954. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College William and Mary, 1989. Master of Arts, Bryn Mawr College, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1959. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Marietta College, 1987. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1987.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Brown University, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Lafayette College, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Haverford College, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Transylvania University, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1995. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Holyok College, 1996.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Smith College, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University South, 1999.
She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985. In 2001 the college dedicated the Mary Maples Dunn Garden in recognition of her service and particularly her leadership on the college"s Landscape Master Plan. Retired, Dunn became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
According to Ann M. Little, Dunn has also been the Director of the Schlesinger Library, the first Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and co-Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society.
While Dunn"s scholarship primarily concerned William Penn, Pennsylvania, and the history of English-speaking colonies in the middle-Atlantic portion of what is now the United States, she was not guilty of the limited visions of those who understand "colonial America" to refer only to the "original" thirteen English coast on the Atlantic Coast of North America. As a history professor at Bryn Mawr College, Dunn taught an innovative interdisciplinary course in Latin American Studies in the mid-1970s.
This early foray into interdisciplinary Latin American studies incorporated history, culture, and architecture. The Mary Maples Dunn Prize, established in 2008, will honor "the best article in early American women's history by an untenured scholar published in The William and Mary Quarterly that uses gender as a primary analytical category".
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Trustee The Clark School for the Deaf, 1988-1995, Academy Museum, 1985-1995, History Deerfield, Inc., since 1986, Bingham Fund for Teaching Excellence at Transylvania University, since 1987, John Carter Brown Library., 1994-1999, National Organization for Women/Legal Defense and Education Fund., since 1996, Marlboro Music, since 1996. Member Berkshire Conference Women Historians (president 1973-1975), Coordinating Committee Women History Profession (president 1975-1977), American History Association, American Philosophical Society (co-Executive officer since 2002), Institute Early American History and Culture (chairman advisory council 1977-1980), Massachusetts History Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Richard S. Dunn, September 3, 1960. Children— Rebecca Cofrin, Cecilia Elizabeth.