I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America

Author:   Gilbert M. Joseph ,  Mark D. Szuchman
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Volume:   No. 9
ISBN:  

9780842024969


Pages:   213
Publication Date:   01 October 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gilbert M. Joseph ,  Mark D. Szuchman
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Volume:   No. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780842024969


ISBN 10:   0842024964
Pages:   213
Publication Date:   01 October 1995
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The City as Vision-The Development of Urban Culture in Latin America Chapter 2 Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest Chapter 3 The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule Chapter 4 Viceregal Lima in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 5 Colonial Buenos Aires Chapter 6 Bahia in the Late Colonial Period Chapter 7 Bogot* in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 8 Lima in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9 Buenos Aires in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 10 The Transformation of S o Paulo Chapter 11 Another Sao Paulo Chapter 12 Mexico's Megalopolis

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A particular virtue of the texts chosen is that they not only describe Bogota, Lima, and Buenos Aires, but give us a window into the thinking of contemporary observers as to the complex meaning of urban life-as both an avatar of modernization, and as modern dystopia.--Young, Eric Van


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