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Crafting a Republic for the World : Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia /

"An examination of how the development of geography practices, disciplines, and technologies intertwined with the process of modern nation-state formation in Colombia from 1821 to 1921"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Del Castillo, Lina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Manufacturing "el Sabio" Caldas : print culture, political economy, and the erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment
  • Mapping out provincial circulation through Bogotá, 1845-1852
  • From trigonometry to social arithmetic : nineteenth-century land surveyors and the invention of the "Indíjena"
  • From the Instituto Caldas to the Chorographic Commission : diagnosing the colonial legacy in New Granada provinces
  • The territorial-constitutional challenge of universal manhood suffrage, 1853-1863
  • Radical liberals attack the "colonial legacy" of the Catholic Church
  • Conclusion: "Colonial" legacies in the science of history, then and now.