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Table of Contents
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List of Illustrations |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: Writing the Colony |
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Rewriting |
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The Host of Writings |
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Truth and Territory |
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Germanness: A People Without Country |
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Chile: A Country Without People |
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Competition and Menschenkapital |
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Chapter 2: The Vertical and the Horizontal Gaze |
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Apollonian Vision |
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The Horizontal Perspective |
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Penetration |
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Erasing the Native |
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Chapter 3: The Naturalist’s Performance |
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The Geographic Society |
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Botanizing |
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Inscribing the Nation |
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Hegemonic Encounters |
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Chapter 4: Transcriptions |
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Fiction and Geography |
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Con-texts |