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),...