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Visions of the Emerald City : modernity, tradition, and the formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

Author: Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Offers an analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. This book describes how Oaxacans, both elites  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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