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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez |
| ISBN: | 9780822337904 0822337908 |
| OCLC Number: | 318402660 |
| Notes: | Incluye índice. |
| Description: | xv, 231 p. : il., mapas ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Overmyer-Velázquez. |
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"In his fascinating saga of a provincial elite's struggle to claim a place in Mexico's late-nineteenth-century narrative of progress and nation building, Mark Overmyer-Velazquez reveals the centrality of the city to the modern ideal of Mexico. The politicians, workers, prostitutes, intellectuals, and clerics whose words and actions animate the pages of this book show us how the promise of modernity reconfigured domains of privilege and visibility. By documenting the civic rituals, administrative projects, literary ideals, and architectural plans through which Oaxaca's Porfirian wizards built their Emerald City, Overmyer-Velazquez forces us to rethink our understandings of church-state relations, provincial cultural projects, and nation building in pre-Revolutionary Mexico."--Deborah Poole, author of Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World Read more...
