Mexico at the world's fairs : crafting a modern nation /
This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at...
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| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Berkeley, California :
University of California Press
[2018]
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| Цуврал: | New historicism ;
35. UC Press voices revived. |
| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.15976667 |
Агуулга:
- Cover
- Series Editors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Porfirian Mexico and World's Fairs
- 1. France and Her Followers
- 2. The Imperatives of Mexican Progress
- 3. Mexico and the World at Large
- 4. The Wizards of Progress: Paris 1889
- 5. The Aztec Palace and the History of Mexico
- 6. Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition
- 7. Mexican Art and Architecture in Paris
- 8. Mexican Statistics, Maps, Patents, and Governance
- 9. Natural History and Sanitation in the Modern Nation
- 10. Irony
- Part II: World's Fairs and Mexico after the Revolution of 1910
- 11. Toward Revolutionary Mexico
- 12. The 1922 Rio de Janeiro Fair
- 13. The 1929 Seville Fair
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. The Porfirian Wizards of Progress
- Appendix 2. The Economic Cost of World'S Fairs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.