TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appelbaum,Nancy P.
TI  - Mapping the country of regions: the Chorographic Commission of nineteenth-century Colombia 
SN  - 9781469627465
AV  - GA693.7.A1 A77 2016eb
U1  - 526.09861 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Comisi�on Corogr�afica
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Cartography
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Travel
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - 1832-1886
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Distinguished citizens" of the "illustrated world" : creation and composition of the Commission -- Views of the country : chorography in the aura of Humboldt -- A homogeneous, vigorous, and well-formed population : the northeast and Antioquia -- A grave for the white race : the Pacific lowlands -- The progressive spirit of the Granadinos : envisioning economic progress -- Solitary deserts : the eastern plains and Amazon -- The history of these sublime cordilleras : geology, prehistory and history -- A seat among the savants : controversies after Codazzi -- Conclusion : "The country of regions."
N2  - The 19th century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than 30 provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition
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