Dibujar la nación
Subtitle: la Comisión Corográfica en la Colombia del siglo XIX
By: Nancy P. Appelbaum ; traducción de Juan Manuel Pombo
Edition: Primera edición en español (FCE-Colombia), 2017.
Series: Tandem coediciones; Colección Tezontle; Tandem coediciones; Tezontle
Publisher: Ediciones Uniandes; Fondo de Cultura Económica
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789587744958
Subjects: History; Cartography; Description and travel; Travel; Colombia. Comisión Corográfica; Colombia
Other titles: Comisión corográfica en la Colombia del siglo XIX
Work titles: Mapping the country of regions
Description: The 19th century was an era of ambitious geographic expeditions in the Americas. The Colombian Corographic Commission, which began in 1850 and lasted almost ten years, was one of the most influential in Latin America. Its objective was to delimit and map the young nation and its natural resources with the idea of ??contributing to its modernization. In this story of the Corographic Commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum concentrates on fieldwork practices and visual production of geographers as they traversed mountains, plains and forests in more than thirty provinces in order to define the territorial and racial composition of the country. Their assumptions and their methods contributed to molding a national imaginary that has remained to this day. The collection of reports, maps, sketches and drawings of the Commission shows a great tension between the marked differences observed by geographers in their field work and the ideas of homogenization to which they aspired. Those who participated in the Commission and its sponsors believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and homogenous population, but, paradoxically, its maps and paintings emphasized the diversity of the country and helped to create a "country of regions."
Notes: Translation of: Mapping the country of regions : the Chorographic Commission of nineteenth-century Colombia.

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Agradecimientos para la edición en inglés; title: Introducción. La Comisión Corográfica en Nueva Granada; title: 1. Distinguidos ciudadanos del mundo ilustrado: fundación y conformacón ed la Comisión; title: 2. Visiones del país: corografía a la sombra de humboldt; title: 3. Una población vigorosa, homogénea y bien conformada: las provincias andinas del nororiente y Antioquia; title: 4. Un sepulcro para la raza blanca: las tierras bajas del Pácifico; title: 5. El espíritu ilustrado y progresista de los granadinos: visualizando el progreso económico; title: 6. Desiertas soledades: Llanos Orientales y la Amazonia; title: 7. La historia de esas sublimes cordilleras: geología, prehistoria e historia; title: 8. Un asiento entre los sabios: controversias despues de Codazzi; title: Conclusiones. El país de las regiones.