University of California Press
Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation Volume 35
Key Metrics
- Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- University of California Press
- Paperback
- 9780520301078
- 9 X 6 X 0.87 inches
- 1.26 pounds
- History > Latin America - Mexico
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment.
Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
Author Bio
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is Samuel N. Harper Professor of History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College at the Department of History, The University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago Press has awarded the 2015 Laing Prize to Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo for I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Source: The University of Chicago
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