Artifacts of Revolution
Subtitle: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940 (Latin American Silhouettes)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: June 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780742554207
Subjects: Architecture; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Mexico; General; Architecture / General; Anthropology - Cultural
Description: "This history argues that we can understand important facets of the Mexican Revolution by analyzing the architecture designed and built in Mexico City during the formative years from 1920 to 1940. These artifacts, Patrice Olsen convincingly demonstrates, allow us to trace and understand the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Each individual building or development, by providing indelible evidence of the process by which the revolution evolved into a government, offers important insights into Mexican history. Seen in aggregate, they reveal an ongoing urban process at work; seen as a "composition," they reveal changes over time in societal values and aspirations and in the direction of the revolution."--Jacket.