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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786678203321

Autore

Craib Raymond B

Titolo

Cartographic Mexico : a history of state fixations and fugitive landscapes / / Raymond B. Craib

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 2004

ISBN

0-8223-8594-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise

Disciplina

911.72

Soggetti

Political geography

Cartography - Mexico - History

Geographical perception - Political aspects - Mexico

Land tenure - Mexico - History

Mexico Historical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Writing a spatial history of Mexico -- The terrain of tradition -- Fugitive landscapes -- Standard plots -- Situated knowledges -- Spatial progressions -- Fluvial confusions -- Revolutionary spaces -- These questions will never end.

Sommario/riassunto

'Cartographic Mexico' analyses the spatial history of 19th & early 20th century Mexico, particularly the political uses of mapping & surveying, in order to demonstrate the multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.