Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico

by Magali M. Carrera

Antonio Garc a Cubas's Carta general of 1857, the first published map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the country's geographic coordinates in precise detail. The respected geographer and cartographer made mapping Mexico his life's work. Combining insights from the history of cartography and visual culture studies, Magali M. Carrera explains how Garc a Cubas fabricated credible and inspiring nationalist visual narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349914
• ISBN13: 9780822349914
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"