Visions of the Emerald City
Subtitle: modernity, tradition, and the formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
By: Mark Overmyer-Velázquez.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) -- History -- 19th century; Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: La vallistocracia : the formation of Oaxaca's ruling class; title: The legible city : constructed, symbolic, and disciplined spaces; title: A new political religious order : church, state, and workers; title: A necessary evil : regulating public space and public women; title: Portraits of a lady : visions of modernity.