Authors: Raymond B. Craib, Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Irene Silverblatt (Editor), Sonia Saldivar-Hull
ISBN-13: 9780822334057, ISBN-10: 0822334054
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Raymond B. Craib is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.
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.
Introduction : writing a spatial history of modern Mexico | 1 | |
1 | The terrain of tradition | 19 |
2 | Fugitive landscapes | 55 |
3 | Standard plots | 91 |
4 | Situation 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 |