Patrice Elizabeth Olsen

Artifacts of Revolution

Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative history utilizes the built environment as a means of tracing the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Patrice Elizabeth Olsen considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments during the critical period from 1920 to 1940. Architects, engineers, politicians, and entrepreneurs alike expressed visions of what modern Mexico should be and sought to improve the nation through an array of initiatives. Their successes and failures, and thus the direction of the revolution, is written in the capital city. The author's interdisciplinary approach offers an important contribution to the study of Mexican political history; and the aesthetics of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Latin American Silhouettes
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780742554207
• ISBN-10: 0742554201
• Artikelnr.: 22761637

Autorenporträt

Patrice Elizabeth Olsen is associate professor of history at Illinois State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Architecture Never Lies Chapter 1: La Revolución Constructiva
(1920-1928) Chapter 2: Gobernar a la Ciudad Es Servirla : The Maximato and
Further Institutionalization of the Revolution Chapter 3: La Ciudad, La
Casa de Todos Chapter 4: The City and the Expanding Revolution Chapter 5:
The Cityscape and New Conceptions of the State Chapter 6: A Home for the
Revolution: Patterns and Meaning in Residential Development Chapter 7:
Conclusion: The City and the Revolution, in Aggregate