Millionth Scale Map of Hispanic America

Bowman, Isaiah; Platt, Raye R.

doi:10.1126/science.68.1764.367

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1928

DOI: 10.1126/science.68.1764.367

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Millionth Scale Map of Hispanic America

Isaiah Bowman

Raye R. Platt

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“…. Assim, cada folha apresenta nosso conhecimento cartográfico e nossa ignorância cartográfica(BOWMAN; PLATT, 1928, p.369, tradução nossa) 135 . To the scheme of the International Map have been added certain modifications considered essencial to the throughly scientific presentation of the cartographic status of those parts of the world which are not covered by one type of survey.…”

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Cartografias capitais: os projetos do Mapa Internacional do Mundo e da Carta do Brasil ao Milionésimo (1891-1930)

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This thesis analyzes the projects of the International Map of the World to 1:1,000,000 and of the Map of Brazil to 1:1,000,000 in commemoration of the centenary of independence. Elaborated and developed during the first decades of the twentieth century, these cartographic productions are linked to the process of standardization of weights and measures inserted in the context of material unification of the world given by the expansion of capitalist productions relations. In the case of the world project, conceived by the German geographer Albrecht Penck, at the 5th International Geographical Congress, held in the city of Bern in 1891, the main objective was to create a "new map" for that "new world" which was united under the aegis of scientism and liberalism. However, its realization only came from geopolitical and imperialist well defined contours, with the articulation of the cartographic institutions of the main powers, in a process of reasserting the centers and redesigning the peripheries. In Brazil, the Engineering Club would be responsible, with leaders of figures such as Paulo de Frontin and Francisco Bhering, for the preparation of the Map of Brazil to 1:1,000,000. The ways in which the country inserted itself with this Map in the International Map of the World project were connected to the modernizing discourse that associated technical progress, scientific advances and civilization evolution. This was a Eurocentric model of development that translated into several discourses and projects on the Brazilian territory in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. These plans aimed to meet the modernizing eagerness of the republican state and the hegemonic classes as part of the project of domination and control of the territory and its population. In this sense, geographic knowledge of the territory translated into cartographic language and served the interests of those who wanted to advance "civilization in the Country". Hence the importance of actively participating in projects such as the International Map of the World, as a way of showing itself capable of mapping the most recondite points in the territory. The maps analyzed in this thesis are capital to understand how a cartography for capitalism had to be created and universalized.

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Cartografias capitais: os projetos do Mapa Internacional do Mundo e da Carta do Brasil ao Milionésimo (1891-1930)

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Cartografias capitais: os projetos do Mapa Internacional do Mundo e da Carta do Brasil ao Milionésimo (1891-1930)

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