Mexico at the world's fairs : crafting a modern nation / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo.

Main entry:

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio, 1962-

Title & Author:

Mexico at the world's fairs : crafting a modern nation / Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

The new historicism ; 35

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-356) and index.
pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- Appendix 1. The Porfirian Wizards of Progress -- Appendix 2. The Economic Cost of World's Fairs.

Summary:

"Cosmopolitan approach frames the issue within a more international setting than is common in works about a single Latin American country. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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ISBN:

0520202678 (alk. paper)
9780520202672 (alk. paper)
9780520301078 paperback
0520301072

Subject:

Weltausstellung
Exhibitions History 19th century.
Exhibitions History 20th century.
National characteristics, Mexican.
Mexicans.
Mexicains.
Expositions Histoire 19e siècle.
Expositions Histoire 20e siècle.
15.85 history of America.
Exposiciones S.XIX
Exhibitions
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Beeldvorming.
Nationaal bewustzijn.
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
Trade shows Mexico History.
México Civilización S.XIX
Mexiko
Mexico Civilization.
Geschichte 1876-1937

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

New historicism ; 35.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213828
Call No.: T395.5.M6 T4 1996
Status: Available

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