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Author Del Castillo, Lina, author.

Title Crafting a republic for the world : scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions of Colombia / Lina del Castillo
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Contents Manufacturing "el Sabio" Caldas : print culture, political economy, and the erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment -- Mapping out provincial circulation through Bogotá, 1845-1852 -- From trigonometry to social arithmetic : nineteenth-century land surveyors and the invention of the "Indíjena" -- From the Instituto Caldas to the Chorographic Commission : diagnosing the colonial legacy in New Granada provinces -- The territorial-constitutional challenge of universal manhood suffrage, 1853-1863 -- Radical liberals attack the "colonial legacy" of the Catholic Church -- Conclusion: "Colonial" legacies in the science of history, then and now
Summary "An examination of how the development of geography practices, disciplines, and technologies intertwined with the process of modern nation-state formation in Colombia from 1821 to 1921"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2018)
Subject Geography -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History
Science -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History
Historiography -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History
Elite (Social sciences) -- Colombia -- History
Republicanism -- Colombia -- History
Postcolonialism -- Colombia -- History
Nationalism -- Colombia -- History
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Colonial influence
Elite (Social sciences)
Geography
Historiography -- Political aspects
Nationalism
Politics and government
Postcolonialism
Republicanism
Science -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028507
Colombia -- Geography
Colombia -- Colonial influence
Subject Colombia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017031982
ISBN 9781496205834
1496205839
9781496205858
1496205855