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Constructing Mexico City : colonial conflicts over culture, space, and authority /
Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments. In doing so, this study reveal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Shaping the colonial city
- Splendor and misery in the viceregal capital : the physical, material, and political environment of Bourbon Mexico City
- In sickness and health : disease, healing, and the urban population
- A basic necessity : water and the urban environment
- Restoring order out of chaos : garbage collection in theory and practice
- Mastery over the streets : drainage, street paving, and renovation of urban space
- Concluding thoughts.