New This Week: February 11th

New this week is a book that tells the story of how people living, governing, and traveling through northern Patagonia sought to construct versions of ‘the nation’ based on their ideas about and experiences in geographical space in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Learn more about this title below or visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new publishing this month.

Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina by María de los Ángeles Picone

“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