El paradigma porfiriano
Subtitle: historia del desagüe del valle de México
By: Manuel Perló Cohen.
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Las ciencias sociales; Colección Las Ciencias sociales.
Publisher: Programa Universitario de Estudios Sobre la Ciudad, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales; M.A. Porrúa Grupo Editorial
Published: 1999
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915 -- Ethics.; Pearson (S.) and Son, Ltd.; Drainage -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History.; Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910.; Mexico City (Mexico) -- History.
Description: "Well-documented examination of the struggle to construct drainage works in a perpetually-flooding capital. Sees Don Porfirio as Faust in the drama of Mexican development, and argues that the plan to drain Mexico City was just as much a bid for more political and social control as a response to scientific and salutary imperatives"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-314).