Spatiality of the Tunja Province in the 19th Century: Political and Geographical Representations

This article compraises a spacial contextualization of the Tunja Province in the mid-nineteenth century. It seeks to present, through its political and geographical setting, a historical construction process of the province. It analyzes a space designed for territorial control through regional mappi...

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Autor Principal: Vega Torres, Daniel Roberto; Instituto de investigaciones científicas en Educación inicien Educación (Tunja, Colombia)
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2015
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/13408
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Sumario: This article compraises a spacial contextualization of the Tunja Province in the mid-nineteenth century. It seeks to present, through its political and geographical setting, a historical construction process of the province. It analyzes a space designed for territorial control through regional mapping, a space perceived from the academic discourses of the universal geography, and, finally, a space lived from socio-cultural experiences. These types of spatiality representation offer a particular understanding of Tunja within the neogranadinian context.