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Estanislao Severos Zeballos and the Transatlantic Science of Statecraft

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This chapter digs deep into the writings of Estanislao Severo Zeballos, who served as Foreign Minister under Sarmiento and founded the Instituto Geográfico Argentino. It showcases the ways in which Zeballos reviews fin-de-siècle geographical discourse from both sides of the Atlantic to theorize the essential qualities of its local incarnation. The chapter reconstructs a dialogue between Zeballos and an array of individuals committed to representing land, including Sarmiento but also Zeballos’s Argentine contemporary Marcos Arredondo; da Cunha and his Brazilian contemporary Rio Branco; and Spanish geographer and founder of the Sociedad de Geografía Comercial, Joaquín Costa. Zeballos emerges as an essential figure across Latin American geography, one who fuels border disputes throughout the region—with Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, and most notoriously with Brazil.

The geographer, who is civilization’s emissary, must be at the vanguard of any army that traverses wild countries across unexplored terrain.

—Estanislao S. Zeballos,

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Madan, A.S. (2017). Estanislao Severos Zeballos and the Transatlantic Science of Statecraft. In: Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55140-1_4

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