Traveling from New Spain to Mexico : mapping practices of nineteenth-century Mexico /

How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio García Cubas.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carrera, Magali Marie, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
García Cubas, Antonio, > 1832-1912.
García Cubas, Antonio, > 1832-1912
1800-1899
Cartography > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Cartographie > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
REFERENCE > Atlases & Gazetteers.
TRAVEL > Maps & Road Atlases.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Cartography
Kartographie.
Kultur.
Mexico > Maps.
Mexico
Mexiko.
History
Maps
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making the invisible visible
  • Locating New Spain : Spanish mappings
  • Touring Mexico : a journey to the land of the Aztecs
  • Imagining the nation and forging the state : Mexican nationalist imagery, 1810-1860
  • Finding Mexico : the García Cubas projects, 1850-1880
  • Traveling from New Spain to Mexico, 1880-1911
  • Performing the nation.

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