Title: Informal empire : Mexico and Central America in Victorian culture /
Authors: Aguirre, Robert D.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Race Relations history; Mexico Collection and preservation Antiquities Great Britain.; Mexico Antiquities Collection and preservation Great Britain.; Mexico Relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Relations Mexico.; Mexico Foreign public opinion, British.; Central America Relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Relations Central America.; Central America Foreign public opinion, British.; Great Britain Civilization American influences.; Central America Antiquities Collection and preservation Great Britain.
Contents: "Open for inspection" : Mexico at the Egyptian Hall in 1824 -- Buena vista : panoramas and the visualization of conquest -- Agencies of the letter : the British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the ruins of Central America -- Freak show : the Aztec children and the ruins of race.