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How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio García Cubas.
List of Illustrations ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction: Research and Theoretical Perspectives 11. Making the Invisible Visible 192. Locating New Spain: Spanish Mappings 393. Touring Mexico: A Journey to the Land of the Aztecs 634. Imagining the Nation and Forging the State: Mexican Nationalist Imagery¿1810¿1860 1095. Finding Mexico: The García Cubas Projects¿1850¿1880 1446. Traveling from New Spain to Mexicö1880¿1911 1847. Performing the Nation 232Notes 245Bibliography 277Index 317