{"product_id":"mapping-the-country-of-regions-the-chorographic-commission-of-nineteenth-century-colombia-9781469627441","title":"Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia","description":"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 P. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy P. Appelbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.23w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469627441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy P. Appelbaum, professor of history at Binghamton University, The State University of New York, is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRace and Nation in Modern Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eMuddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115620819059,"sku":"9781469627441","price":67.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b287b0af-df7c-4f7d-be50-3c9570f957cf.jpg?v=1781787546","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mapping-the-country-of-regions-the-chorographic-commission-of-nineteenth-century-colombia-9781469627441","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}