Mark Overmyer Velazquez: 1 book

Book cover of Visions of the Emerald City

Visions of the Emerald City

Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006

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),...
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