Mapping the Good Neighbor

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Mette Flynt
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Abstract

American tourism in Mexico increased significantly during the Good Neighbor era. By creating tourist maps, cartographers on both sides of the border participated in an intentional, ideological process of reshaping these tourists’ views of Mexico. They sought to transform Americans’ perceptions not only of Mexicans and their history but also of the physical environment. Their Mexico was a place of contrast, suspended in the romantic past and engaged in modernity. Although cartographers constructed a new Mexico through their maps, they did not challenge perceptions of an asymmetrical power dynamic that had defined U.S.-Mexico relations and the tourism industry at large. Instead, their maps reinforced, reproduced, and contributed to it. Cartographers, like the maps they created, were not passive or inconsequential actors. Analyzing the ideas, relationships, and myths embedded in their maps expands our understanding of transnational tourism, environmental change, selective history, and imagined communities in the twentieth century.
映射好邻居
在“好邻居”时期,美国到墨西哥旅游的人数显著增加。通过制作旅游地图,两国边境的制图师参与了一个有意的、意识形态的过程,重塑了这些游客对墨西哥的看法。他们不仅试图改变美国人对墨西哥人及其历史的看法,还试图改变美国人对墨西哥自然环境的看法。他们的墨西哥是一个对比鲜明的地方,停留在浪漫的过去,投身于现代。尽管地图绘制者通过他们的地图构建了一个新的墨西哥,但他们并没有挑战那种定义美墨关系和整个旅游业的不对称权力动态的看法。相反,他们的地图强化、复制并为之做出了贡献。制图师,就像他们创造的地图一样,不是被动或无足轻重的角色。分析他们的地图中的思想、关系和神话扩展了我们对20世纪跨国旅游、环境变化、选择性历史和想象社区的理解。
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期刊介绍: For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945
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