"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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 "IndÃjena" -- 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.
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