a history of state fixations and fugitive landscapes /
First Statement of Responsibility
Raymond B. Craib.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham, N.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 300 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Latin America otherwise
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Cartographic Mexico.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cartography-- Mexico-- History.
Geographical perception-- Political aspects-- Mexico.