A National Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Rick López, James Kessenides, Matthew Edney, and Erika Pani for their comments and suggestions on previous drafts of this article. I am especially grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their detailed critiques. I have also benefited from the comments of audience members and discussants on panels at which earlier versions of this essay were presented: The Conference on Geography and History, Yale University, January 2000; the New England Council on Latin American Studies Conference, October 2000; and the American Historical Association’s Annual Conference, January 2001. Research for this article was funded by fellowships from the International Dissertation Field Research Program of the Social Science Research Council, with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program of the U.S. Department of Education. 1. Mariano Otero, “Considerations Relating to the Political and Social Situation of the Mexican Republic in the Year 1847,” in The View from Chapultepec: Mexican Writers on the Mexican-American War, ed. and trans. Cecil Robinson (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1989).