Craib / Saldívar-Hull Cartographic Mexico

A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8594-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craib, Raymond B

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

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

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond B. Craib is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.