This luminous, lyrical set of essays comes at Mexico City's cultural transformations and the global flows that informed them from a number of angles, each more provocative and fascinating than the last.
Margaret Chowning University of California, Berkeley Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo delivers insightful, multidisciplinary examinations of Mexican culture, society, and history with [Mexico] City as teh main ... Read moreactor. . . . A unique vision and a solid entry for scholars, graduate students, and researchers interested in Mexico or urban history in general. Highly recommended.
Choice A bold and welcome attempt to change how we read and write urban history.
Canadian Journal of History [An] assiduously researched and gracefully crafted series of essays on the history of Mexico City in the first decades of the twentieth century. . . . I Speak of the City . . . is a work that is far more than the sum of its elegantly crafted parts. Tenorio-Trillo's innovative book contributes to Mexican and urban history more generally and provides an outstanding guide for imagining the simultaneity and multiple dimensions of the historical urban experience.
American Historical Review I Speak of the City is an excellent and beautifully written cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico City. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo displays a vast erudition as he takes the reader on a tour of the city's literature, art, architecture, design, journalism, music, popular sayings, and
not for the faint of heart
the deadly typhus epidemics.
Rub n Gallo Princeton University I Speak of the City is a work of remarkable erudition and interpretation of the modernity and cosmopolitanism of Mexico City. It is a work of rich implication for our thinking about the nature of modernity and of world cities in general. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is a unique and exciting guide to layered history and cultural connections of one of the world's great cities.
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