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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kandell, Jonathan. Capital. New York : Random House, ©1988 (OCoLC)577754211 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Kandell |
ISBN: | 0394540697 9780394540696 |
OCLC Number: | 17841452 |
Description: | 640 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The valley and its first inhabitants -- The cannibal empire -- Motecuhzoma -- The Spanish background -- Conquest -- Birth of the Spanish city -- The Indians under Spanish rule -- City of silver -- The forgotten century -- The bourbon era -- Independence -- A nation betrayed -- Juarez and Maximilian -- The master of Mexico -- Revolution -- Revolutionary art, cautious politics -- The golden decades -- Megalopolis. |
Responsibility: | Jonathan Kandell. |
Abstract:
A history of Mexico City from the Aztec empire to the present day.
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