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In this original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically rich book, Magali M. Carrera situates Mexican art and cartography in national and international contexts, gives the mapmaker Antonio Garcia Cubas the scholarly attention he has long deserved, and connects his projects not only to nineteenth-century visual culture but also to colonial visual culture and travel narratives from the early independence era. It is a superb book, one that scholars of Mexican and Latin American history, art history, visual culture, and cultural studies will read and admire for years to come. Raymond B. Craib, author of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes Traveling from New Spain to Mexico is an important book. It is distinctive in that it situates what we traditionally recognize as cartography in relation to post-independence Mexico's broader visual culture, patriotic and geographic literature, and even oratory. In addition, Magali M. Carrera grounds the work of late nineteenth-century historians and geographers in the colonial experience of New Spain, allowing us to see how visual tropes changed across several centuries and in response to Mexico's independence and early national experience. James R. Akerman, editor of Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire

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Magali M. Carrera is Chancellor Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She is the author of Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings.

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