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This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.

Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature   . --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern—20th century.

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This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.

Literature --- History of Latin America --- postkolonialisme --- literatuur --- wereldliteratuur --- Homer --- Zeballos, Estanislao Severo --- da Cunha, Euclides --- Olmedo, José Joaquín --- Humboldt, von, Alexander --- Reclus, Elisée --- anno 1900-1999