Cartographic Mexico - A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes

Informationen zum Autor Raymond B. Craib is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. Klappentext Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas. Zusammenfassung Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico! particularly political uses of mapping and surveying! to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Writing a Spatial History of Modern Mexico 1 1. The Terrain of Tradition 19 2. Fugitive Landscapes 55 3. Standard Plots 91 4. Situated Knowledges: The Geographic Exploration Commission (I) 127 5. Spatial Progressions: The Geographic Exploration Commission (II) 163 6. Fluvial Confusions 193 7. Revolutionary Spaces 219 Epilogue: “These questions will never end” 255 Bibliography 261 Index 289

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Raymond B Craib, Raymond B. Craib
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.11.2004
• EAN: 9780822334057
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3405-7
• Seiten: 328
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Reise > Karten, Stadtpläne, Atlanten; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges