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Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes » (1st Edition)
Authors: Raymond B. Craib, Walter D. Mignolo (Editor), Irene Silverblatt (Editor), Sonia Saldivar-Hull
ISBN-13: 9780822334163, ISBN-10: 082233416X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Raymond B. Craib
Raymond B. Craib is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| 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 |
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