British Honduras: The invention of a colonial territory Mapping and spatial knowledge in the 19th century (French Edition)
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Until the 17th century, the area currently occupied by Belize appeared in maps as a portion of space in the American world with no particular attribute other than being at the confines of a territory poorly known to Europeans, some of whom stopped there without making any political or social commitment before the area became coveted, delimited, and negotiated between empires. In the 18th Century it was integrated into a colonial structure as a territory to be controlled and administered by Great Britain in the 19th Century. The purpose of this monograph is not to retrace the genesis of a nation, but more modestly, to recount the invention of a colonial territory. No territory exists on its own; only social, political, symbolic and emotional constructions grant it substance and reality. Through descriptions, narratives, and maps, this monograph brings the territory into existence and displays the articulation between the imaginary, the subjectivities, and the spatial practices of the social and political actors political authorities, residents, cartographers who interacted in Belize s territorial construction.
About the Author
Dr. Odile Hoffmann is a geographer at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), member of the Research Unit on Migration and Society (URMIS) in Paris. Formerly Hoffmann was the Director of the French Center for Mexican and Central American Studies (CEMCA), Mexico. Her research focuses on agrarian and political dynamics in Mexico (Veracruz), multiculturalism and Black communities in Colombia (Pacifico), and more generally on processes of racialisation and space in Mexico, Belize and Colombia. Her last book that she co-edited with Elisabeth Cunin is Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America (2013, Africa World Press).
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| Title | British Honduras: The invention of a colonial territory Mapping and spatial knowledge in the 19th century (French Edition) |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 976816140X |
| ISBN 10 | 976816140X |
| ISBN 13 | 9789768161406 |
| Date published | 2014 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| MRSP | 0.00 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Author | Odile Hoffmann |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Language | nl |
| Publisher | Cubola Productions |
| Tags | Historical geography History |
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