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Cartographic Mexico - Raymond B Craib

Cartographic Mexico

A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes

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Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2004
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-3405-7 (ISBN)
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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.
In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such routines were part of a federal obsession—or “state fixation”—with determining and “fixing” geographic points, lines, and names in order to facilitate economic development and political administration. As well as analyzing the maps that resulted from such routines, Craib examines in close detail the processes that eventually generated them. Taking central Veracruz as a case in point, he shows how in the field, agrarian officials, military surveyors, and metropolitan geographers traversed a “fugitive landscape” of overlapping jurisdictions and use rights, ambiguous borders, shifting place names, and villagers with their own conceptions of history and territory. Drawing on an array of sources—including maps, letters from peasants, official reports, and surveyors’ journals and correspondence—Craib follows the everyday, contested processes through which officials attempted to redefine and codify such fugitive landscapes in struggle with the villagers they encountered in the field. In the process, he vividly demonstrates how surveying and mapmaking were never mere technical procedures: they were, and remain to this day, profoundly social and political practices in which surveyors, landowners, agrarian bureaucrats, and peasants all played powerful and complex roles.

Raymond B. Craib is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University.

List of Illustrations xi

Abbreviations xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Writing a Spatial History of Modern Mexico 1

1. The Terrain of Tradition 19

2. Fugitive Landscapes 55

3. Standard Plots 91

4. Situated 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

Bibliography 261

Index 289

Reihe/Serie Latin America Otherwise
Zusatzinfo 20 illus.
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 585 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8223-3405-4 / 0822334054
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-3405-7 / 9780822334057
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