Landscaping Patagonia : spatial history and nation-making in Chile and Argentina
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Landscaping Patagonia : spatial history and nation-making in Chile and Argentina
（The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history）
University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
- : paperback
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index
Summary:"In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived as 'desert,' through a myriad of nationalizing policies, from military campaigns to hotels. But beyond the urban governing halls of Chile and Argentina, explorers, migrants, local authorities, bandits, and visitors also made sense of the nation by inhabiting the physical space of the northern Patagonian Andes. They surveyed passes, opened roads, claimed land titles or leases, traveled miles to the nearest police station, rode miles on horseback to escape the police, and hiked the landscape. María de los Ángeles Picone tells the story of how people living, governing, and traveling through northern Patagonia sought to construct versions of Chile and Argentin
収録内容
- Taming the monster
- Science for the nation
- Settling Patagonia
- The materiality of space
- Spatial discourses for a healthy nation
- National aesthetics in the Argentine locality
- The outdoor destination
- The opportunity of spatial history
