Magali M Carrera

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349761
• ISBN-10: 0822349760
• Artikelnr.: 32862895

Autorenporträt

Magali M. Carrera is Chancellor Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She is the author of Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Research and Theoretical Perspectives 1
1. Making the Invisible Visible 19
2. Locating New Spain: Spanish Mappings 39
3. Touring Mexico: A Journey to the Land of the Aztecs 63
4. Imagining the Nation and Forging the State: Mexican Nationalist
Imagery-1810-1860 109
5. Finding Mexico: The García Cubas Projects-1850-1880 144
6. Traveling from New Spain to Mexico-1880-1911 184
7. Performing the Nation 232
Notes 245
Bibliography 277
Index 317