List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing a Spatial History of Modern Mexico; 1. The Terrain of Tradition; 2. Fugitive Landscapes; 3. Standard Plots; 4. Situated Knowledges: The Geographic Exploration Commission (I); 5. Spatial Progressions: The Geographic Exploration Commission (II); 6. Fluvial Confusions; 7. Revolutionary Spaces; Epilogue: ''These questions will never end, ''; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas
