![]() | Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia Subjects: Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1810; Colombia -- Geography; Geography -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History; Science -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History; Historiography -- Political aspects -- Colombia -- History; Elite (Social scien; In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish "colonial legacy." Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors. Lina del Castillo is an assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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