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