Entangled Fates

French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819-1830

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ID2828050
AuthorsLina Del Castillo (0000-0002-6126-0389, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume98
Issue3
Pages407-438
Publication date2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182168-6933545
OpenAlexW2882978918
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited51

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 Nebraska Press, 2018). Her essay “Colombian Cartography in the Production (and Silencing) of Independence History” appeared in Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation (University of Chicago Press, 2017). She has won grants and fellowships from several bodies, including the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London's School of Advanced Study, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Fulbright-Hays Program, and the John Carter Brown Library. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 407–438. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933545 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Lina Del Castillo; Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819–1830. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 407–438. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933545 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Abstract When recognition of independence lay tantalizingly out of reach, officials of the first Colombian republic devoted funds and expertise toward hiring French-trained naturalists for an expedition. These officials' plan to gain diplomatic recognition of Colombia through European scientific patronage networks initially seemed poised to work. As promises of Colombian platinum piqued British moneylenders' interest, French mapmakers etched the naturalists' early findings onto copperplates. But both the expedition and the Colombian republic emerged amid the transatlantic geopolitical changes and local economic and political crises of the 1820s. The illness and death of key actors compounded these uncertainties. Drawing on published and manuscript correspondence, memoirs, and the naturalists' findings, in addition to a close reading of changes made to French-printed maps, this essay explores the entangled fates of the expedition and the Colombian republic to reveal the materiality and spatiality of natural history knowledge production and the praxis of geopolitics. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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