Argentine Chilian Boundary Report Presented To The Tribunal Appointed By Her Britannic Majestys Government To Consider And Report Upon The Differences Which Have Arisen With Regard To The Frontier Between The Argentine And Chilian Republics To Justify The Argentine Claims For The Boundary In The Summit Of The Cordillera De Los Andes According To The Treaties Of 1881 1893 With Plates And Maps

Author : Ernesto Capello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000228797
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas written by Ernesto Capello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.