Mexico otherwise
Subtitle: modern Mexico in the eyes of foreign observers
By: edited and translated by Jürgen Buchenau.
Contributors: Buchenau, Jürgen, 1964-
Series: Diálogos; Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Mexico -- History -- 1810- -- Sources; Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources; Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Sources; Mexico -- Description and travel; Mexico -- Foreign public opinion
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.281-285).
Table of contents: title: Whither the new nation? A land of contrasts / Alexander von Humboldt; title: A sketch of Mexican society / Joel Poinsett; title: Life in a convent / Fanny Calderón de la Barca; title: With the Stars and Stripes in Mexico / William Henry; title: A view of tropical Veracruz / Carl Sartorius; title: Defending the French intervention / Emmanuel Domenech; title: Life in Maximilian's Mexico City / Paula von Kollonitz; title: Porfirian modernization. Three days of fiesta in Mexico City / Clément Bertie-Marriott; title: Culture shock in northern Mexico / Fanny Chambers Gooch; title: From the Tarascos to Porfirio Díaz / Carl Lumholtz; title: Military diazpotism in theory and practice / Charles Flandrau; title: The barbarous Porfiriato / John K. Turner; title: Revolution and reconstruction. With Zapata in Cuernavaca / Rosa King; title: Viva Villa! / John Reed; title: Keeping house in revolutionary Mexico City / Luise Böker; title: A revolution for the Indians? / B. Traven; title: Mexico for the Mexicans / Luis Araquistáin; title: A country without conservatives / Evelyn Waugh; title: Freedom for Mexican women? / Verna Millan; title: The "Mexican miracle" and its collapse. The downside of the miracle / Franz Böker; title: The best of tradition and modernity / Irene Nicholson; title: Tourism, bullfights, and bullets (letters to President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz); title: Survival in the shantytown / Judith Adler Hellman; title: Travels among the Zapatistas / Isabel Tree; title: The dead women of Juárez / Sam Quinones.