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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 Geografico Argentino. It showcases the ways in which Zeballos reviews fin-de-siecle 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 Geografia Comercial, Joaquin 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. |
