The role of the city--as an institution, as a political ideal, as a training ground for politicians--has been neglected in historical studies of Spanish American independence. Connecting the political changes of the Bourbon Reforms (1759-1788) and constitutional monarchy (1808-1821) to those of the independence era (1821-1839), Jordana Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces (weak administrative districts with ambiguous political identities and divided interiors) into...
The role of the city--as an institution, as a political ideal, as a training ground for politicians--has been neglected in historical studies of Spani...
For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.
In "Mapping Latin America," ""Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide...
For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something a country, a city, or a natural resource. B...
