a history of state fixations and fugitive landscapes /
Raymond B. Craib.
Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2004.
xviii, 300 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
25 cm.
Latin America otherwise
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
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.
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'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.
Cartographic Mexico.
Cartography-- Mexico-- History.
Geographical perception-- Political aspects-- Mexico.