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Mapping the Country of Regions - The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Hardcover)
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Mapping the Country of Regions - The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Hardcover)
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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 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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