Landscaping Patagonia : spatial history and nation-making in Chile and Argentina / María de los Ángeles Picone

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picone, María de los Ángeles, author.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History.

Settler colonialism.

National characteristics, Argentine.

National characteristics, Chilean.

Cultural landscapes--Political aspects--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Cultural landscapes.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History, Local--20th century.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History, Local--19th century.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Geography--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived as "desert," through a myriad of nationalizing policies, from military campaigns to hotels. But beyond the urban governing halls of Chile and Argentina, explorers, migrants, local authorities, bandits, and visitors also made sense of the nation by inhabiting the physical space of the northern Patagonian Andes. They surveyed passes, opened roads, claimed land titles or leases, traveled miles to the nearest police station, rode miles on horseback to escape the police, and hiked the landscape. María de los Ángeles Picone tells the story of how people living, governing, and traveling through northern Patagonia sought to construct versions of Chile and Argentina based on their ideas about and experiences in geographical space in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By repositioning the analytical focus from Santiago and Buenos Aires to northern Patagonia, Picone reveals how a wide array of actors, with varying degrees of political, economic, and social power, assigned distinctive--and sometimes conflicting--meanings to space and national identity"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Introduction : taming the monster

Science for the nation

Settling Patagonia

The materiality of space

Spatial discourses for a healthy nation

National aesthetics in the Argentine locality

The outdoor destination

Conclusion : the opportunity of spatial history

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 15, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Picone, María de los Ángeles Landscaping Patagonia

ISBN:

9781469686189

146968618X

9781469686158

1469686155

9781469686165

1469686163

OCLC:

1523537695

Publisher Number:

40032617004