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Visions of the Emerald City
Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
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Description for Visions of the Emerald City
paperback. 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 and commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of a modern Mexico. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 b&w photos, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of Oaxaca but also a vital commercial hub for all of southern Mexico. As such, it was a showcase for many of Díaz’s modernizing and state-building projects. Drawing on in-depth research in archives in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and the United States, Mark ... Read more
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of Oaxaca but also a vital commercial hub for all of southern Mexico. As such, it was a showcase for many of Díaz’s modernizing and state-building projects. Drawing on in-depth research in archives in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and the United States, Mark ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822337904
SKU
V9780822337904
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About Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.
Reviews for Visions of the Emerald City
“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-Velázquez 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 ... Read more