Landscaping Patagonia spatial history and nation-making in Chile and Argentina / María de los Ángeles Picone.
| Author/creator | Picone, María de los Ángeles |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | xxiv, 303 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Spatial history and nation-making in Chile and Argentina |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/471c4bda-08aa-1102-d44b-6d4e09aefa20 ^A1258699 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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 Argentina based on their ideas about and experiences in geographical space in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By repositioning the analytical focus from Santiago and Buenos Aires to northern Patagonia, Picone reveals how a wide array of actors, with varying degrees of political, economic, and social power, assigned distinctive - and sometimes conflicting - meanings to space and national identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-290) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024041047 |
| ISBN | 9781469686134 cloth alk. paper |
| ISBN | 9781469686141 paperback alk. paper |
| ISBN | epub |
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