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Könyv Cartographic Mexico Raymond B. Craib

Cartographic Mexico

A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes

Szerző: Raymond B. Craib
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Duke University Press
Elérhetőség: 50 % esély
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This vivid social history reveals the powerful role that cartographic projects such as exploration,...

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Szerző
Raymond B. Craib
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2004
oldal
328
EAN
9780822334057
ISBN
0822334054
Enbook ID
04938048
Kiadó
Duke University Press
Súly
585
Méretek
158 x 243 x 25

Teljes leírás

This vivid social history reveals the powerful role that cartographic projects such as exploration, surveying, and mapping played in the creation of modern Mexico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Raymond B. Craib describes the varied and pervasive attempts by government officials to determine the lines and claims that would define the nation. These projects included the privatization of communal lands; the delineation and archiving of village, municipal, state, and national boundaries; and the determination of waterways and water rights. As Craib emphasizes, the everyday processes of these cartographic routines proved to be much more conflicted than is indicated by their end products: maps with unitary and smooth facades. Taking central Veracruz as a case in point, Craib shows how agrarian officials, military surveyors, and metropolitan geographers traversed "fugitive landscapes" of overlapping jurisdictions and use-rights, opaque tenure systems, confusing property regimes, ambiguous borders, and shifting place names. He draws on an array of sources--including maps, letters from campesinos, official reports, and surveyors' journals and correspondence--to trace the everyday, contested processes through which officials attempted to redefine and codify these landscapes in struggle with the villagers they encountered in the field. In the process, he demonstrates in meticulous detail how surveying and mapping were never mere technical procedures: they were--and remain to this day--profoundly social and political processes in which rural people, long ignored in the history of cartography, were actively involved.

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