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Book Chapter
Authorship
ZUSMAN, PERLA BRIGIDA
;
Sergio Nunes Pereira
Date
2025
Publishing House and Editing Place
Springer
Book
Mapping the Contested Line: Cartography And Border Disputes In The Iberian Peninsula, North Africa And Latin America (18-20th Centuries)
Springer
Springer
ISBN
978-85-69437-57-4
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Argentina and Brazil, were engaged in struggles over Latin America hegemony. During this period, the United States not only organized the first Pan-American Conference (1889–1890) but began positioning itself as an arbitrator in border disputes. In 1894 Argentina and Brazil appointed the US president, Grover Cleveland, to mediate in their territorial dispute over the region known as Misiones (by Argentina) or Palmas (by Brazil). After a treaty between...
At the turn of the twentieth century, Argentina and Brazil, were engaged in struggles over Latin America hegemony. During this period, the United States not only organized the first Pan-American Conference (1889–1890) but began positioning itself as an arbitrator in border disputes. In 1894 Argentina and Brazil appointed the US president, Grover Cleveland, to mediate in their territorial dispute over the region known as Misiones (by Argentina) or Palmas (by Brazil). After a treaty between Argentina and Brazil was signed in 1898, confirming the US arbitral award, the two countries took steps to implement on the ground the decisions that had been taken on paper. This chapter identifies strategies used by the demarcators— practices, techniques, and instruments they employed— to address the challenges of delimiting international borders along watercourses. In other words, their task was to impose a geometric order on the frontier along the Uruguay, Pepiri-Guazu, San Antonio, and Iguazu rivers. In this context, cartography not only expressed the negotiations results on the ground, it also depicted a continuous boundary line, helping anchor the territorial imaginary of demarcation. The consensus between Argentina and Brazil on the hydrographic boundary contributed to ensuring friendly relations in the early twentieth century.
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Key Words
BrasilLimiteCartografíaArgentina