Raymond B Craib: 2 books
Cartographic Mexico
A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In Cartographic Mexico, Raymond B. Craib analyzes the powerful role cartographic routines such as exploration, surveying, and mapmaking played in the creation of the modern Mexican state in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such routines were part of a federal obsession—or “state fixation”—with...
The Cry of the Renegade
Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
On October 1, 1920, the city of Santiago, Chile, came to a halt as tens of thousands stopped work and their daily activities to join the funeral procession of José Domingo Gómez Rojas, a 24 year old university student and acclaimed poet. Nicknamed "the firecracker poet" for his incendiary...