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Judas at the Jockey Club and other episodes of Porfirian Mexico /

Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876-1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beezley, William H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Edición:Third edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Porfirian persuasion: sport and recreation in modern Mexico
  • Rocks and rawhide in rural society: tools and technology in Porfirian Mexico
  • Judas at the jockey club
  • Afterword.