Landscaping Patagonia

“In approaching northern Patagonia from six different methodological and thematic angles, this study offers impressive breadth and multifaceted analysis.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“[S]hows that science, maps, agricultural tools, roads, railways, buildings, hotels, and other landscaping technologies were politically driven on both sides of the border and nurtured multiple complicated conflicts in Patagonia. . . . [A]n excellent introduction to the history of the southern territories of South America.”—Technology and Culture

“Historians of migration, border-making, national identity, and spatial history will find much to admire in Landscaping Patagonia.”—Journal of Social History

“Landscaping Patagonia foregrounds the region’s distinctiveness, offering an innovative contribution to spatial and nation studies.”—H-Environment

“By connecting nineteenth-century imperial imaginaries to twenty-first-century consumer culture, the book offers a new understanding on how territories are imaginatively and materially forged, making it an indispensable contribution to the fields of tourism and borderland studies, historical geography, and postcolonial theory.”—Journal of Tourism History

“In this masterful, field-changing work, Picone integrates Chilean and Argentine political, spatial, and environmental history. The Patagonian landscape takes center stage as Picone brings to life the people who inhabited this ecologically and culturally expansive region.”—Emily Wakild, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands, Boise State University

“A delightfully creative analysis of the making of modern Argentina and Chile along the valleys, mountains, and communities of their border in the southern Andes.”—Mark Healey, author of The Ruins of the New Argentina

“By deftly interweaving stories of place-making by settlers, travelers, and authorities in Argentina and Chile, Ángeles Picone dismantles enduring views of Patagonia as an empty space. With its blend of historical and spatial analysis, this book pushes borderland studies in new directions.” —John Soluri, author of Creatures of Fashion