Mapping the Country of Regions
The nineteenth 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 youn...
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| description | The nineteenth 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 thirty provinces in order to delineate the country’s territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission’s array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission’s maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a “country of regions.” By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today’s Colombians. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1513912025-07-21T15:44:33Z Mapping the Country of Regions Appelbaum, Nancy P. Codazzi, Agustín (Agostino) (b. 1793 d.1859) Ancízar, Manuel (b. 1812 d. 1882) Paz, Manuel María (b. 1820 d. 1902) Fernández, Carmelo (b. 1809 d. 1887) Price, Henry (Enrique) ( b. 1819 d. 1863) Chorographic Commission of Colombia History of Colombia, nineteenth century History of Cartography in Colombia (and Latin America) History of Geography in Colombia (and Latin America) History of race in Colombia (and Latin America) Geographical Expeditions in Colombia Colombian state formation Genre painting in Colombial Colombian regions/regionalism/regional stereotypes Costumbrismo/costumbrista art/artists and literature/ thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography The nineteenth 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 thirty provinces in order to delineate the country’s territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission’s array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission’s maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a “country of regions.” By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today’s Colombians. 2025-02-16T13:40:11Z 2025-02-16T13:40:11Z 2025-01-28T11:30:40Z 2016 book ONIX_20250128_9798890849175_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98046 9798890849175 9781469627458 9798890849168 9781469627441 9781469627465 9781469628936 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151391 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98046/1/9798890849175.pdf The University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469627458_Appelbaum 10.5149/9781469627458_Appelbaum f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 dcf50849-b837-420d-ac46-64995a7bf0d4 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890849175 9781469627458 9798890849168 9781469627441 9781469627465 9781469628936 University of North Carolina Press 320 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities 10.13039/100000103 open access |
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