Lina Del Castillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 683352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lina Del Castillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lina |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Castillo |
| SIGNATURE | DEL CASTILLO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6126-0389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Surveying the Lands of RepublicanIndígenas
Nineteenth-century republicans across the political spectrum agreed: the Spanish monarchy produced 'miserable Indians'. Abolishing tribute and privatising communal lands, known asresguardosin New Granada (roughly today's Panama and Colombia), would transform that wretched class into equal citizens. Drawing on late eighteenth-century privatisation efforts by the Spanish Crown, early republican leaders in Gran Colombia inaugurated an era seeking eq…
La invención republicana del legado colonial
Crafting a Republic for the World
Caldas como Galileo
Durante la década de 1820, el periódico oficial de la Gran Colombia editó selectivamente escritos de Francisco José de Caldas, exhibiéndolo como una figura galiléica -el martir de un régimen oscurantista-. La Gaceta se negó a reconocer el apoyo de la Monarquía española a Caldas y la extensa red que se dedicó a estudiar patrióticamente economía política e historia natural para la Corona. Los funcionarios colombianos hicieron uso de la cultura impr…
Entangled Fates
Research Article| August 01 2018 Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819–1830 Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo is assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia (University of…
City at the Center of the World
Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI
The history of Atlantic science
Measuring the New World
Prefiriendo siempre á los agrimensores científicos”. Discriminación en la medición y el reparto de resguardos indígenas en el altiplano cundiboyacense, 1821-1854
This article examines the process of privatization of indigenous reservations in New Granada and argues that the process was mired in conflict. The article demonstrates how ethnic and gender discrimination sparked conflict as attempts were made to privatize indigenous reservations. The focus of the struggles for control over the privatization process was the surveyor: he who had the power to name the surveyor could -in large part- control how the…
Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity
(2003). Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 69-82
Entangled Fates
Research Article| August 01 2018 Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819–1830 Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo is assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia (University of…
The history of Atlantic science
Surveying the Lands of RepublicanIndígenas
Nineteenth-century republicans across the political spectrum agreed: the Spanish monarchy produced 'miserable Indians'. Abolishing tribute and privatising communal lands, known asresguardosin New Granada (roughly today's Panama and Colombia), would transform that wretched class into equal citizens. Drawing on late eighteenth-century privatisation efforts by the Spanish Crown, early republican leaders in Gran Colombia inaugurated an era seeking eq…
Caldas como Galileo
Durante la década de 1820, el periódico oficial de la Gran Colombia editó selectivamente escritos de Francisco José de Caldas, exhibiéndolo como una figura galiléica -el martir de un régimen oscurantista-. La Gaceta se negó a reconocer el apoyo de la Monarquía española a Caldas y la extensa red que se dedicó a estudiar patrióticamente economía política e historia natural para la Corona. Los funcionarios colombianos hicieron uso de la cultura impr…
Prefiriendo siempre á los agrimensores científicos”. Discriminación en la medición y el reparto de resguardos indígenas en el altiplano cundiboyacense, 1821-1854
This article examines the process of privatization of indigenous reservations in New Granada and argues that the process was mired in conflict. The article demonstrates how ethnic and gender discrimination sparked conflict as attempts were made to privatize indigenous reservations. The focus of the struggles for control over the privatization process was the surveyor: he who had the power to name the surveyor could -in large part- control how the…
Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity
(2003). Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 69-82
Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity
(2003). Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 69-82
Prefiriendo siempre á los agrimensores científicos”. Discriminación en la medición y el reparto de resguardos indígenas en el altiplano cundiboyacense, 1821-1854
This article examines the process of privatization of indigenous reservations in New Granada and argues that the process was mired in conflict. The article demonstrates how ethnic and gender discrimination sparked conflict as attempts were made to privatize indigenous reservations. The focus of the struggles for control over the privatization process was the surveyor: he who had the power to name the surveyor could -in large part- control how the…
The history of Atlantic science
Measuring the New World
City at the Center of the World
Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI
La invención republicana del legado colonial
Crafting a Republic for the World
Caldas como Galileo
Durante la década de 1820, el periódico oficial de la Gran Colombia editó selectivamente escritos de Francisco José de Caldas, exhibiéndolo como una figura galiléica -el martir de un régimen oscurantista-. La Gaceta se negó a reconocer el apoyo de la Monarquía española a Caldas y la extensa red que se dedicó a estudiar patrióticamente economía política e historia natural para la Corona. Los funcionarios colombianos hicieron uso de la cultura impr…
Entangled Fates
Research Article| August 01 2018 Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819–1830 Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo Lina Del Castillo is assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia (University of…
Surveying the Lands of RepublicanIndígenas
Nineteenth-century republicans across the political spectrum agreed: the Spanish monarchy produced 'miserable Indians'. Abolishing tribute and privatising communal lands, known asresguardosin New Granada (roughly today's Panama and Colombia), would transform that wretched class into equal citizens. Drawing on late eighteenth-century privatisation efforts by the Spanish Crown, early republican leaders in Gran Colombia inaugurated an era seeking eq…
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