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Author Caistor, Nick.

Title Mexico City : a cultural and literary companion / Nick Caistor ; [foreword by Elena Poniatowska].

Imprint New York : Interlink Books, ©2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  972.53 C137M    Check Shelf
Description xii, 227 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Series Cities of the imagination
Cities of the imagination.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and indexes.
Contents Foreword / Elena Poniatowska -- The First City -- Capital of New Spain -- Independence, Emperors and Dictators -- Reform and Reaction -- Revolution and Nation -- Megacity and Beyond -- Ritual Spaces -- The Templo Mayor or Great Temple, 1519/1978 -- The Cathedral, 1525/1998 -- Tepeyac Hill: The Virgin of Guadalupe, 1531 -- Plaza Mayor/Zocalo, 1539/1847 -- The House of the Fig Tree, 1597/1934 -- Heroes and Villains -- The Tacuba Causeway, 1520 -- Chapultepec Castle, 1865 -- The Angel de la Independencia, 1910/1957 -- La Ciudadela, 1913 -- Arena Coliseo, 1938/1984 -- La Calavera -- The Candelaria de los Patos, 1869 -- Posada's Engraving Shop, 1910 -- Coyoacan -- Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloloco, 1968 -- Mema's House, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, 1988 -- Grandeza Mexicana -- The Utopian City, 1554 -- The Convent of San Jeronimo, 1692 -- The Ministry of Education, 1923 -- Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1984 -- Plaza Garibaldi: Astrid Hadad, 1996 -- "Its Ruins Will Tell the World" -- Avenida Chapultepec, 1325/1995 -- Mercado La Merced, 1519/1950 -- The Alameda, 1692/1985 -- La Casa de los Azulejos, 1734/1978 -- Mixcoac, 1914/1989.
Subject Mexico City (Mexico) -- Description and travel.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- In literature.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- History -- Miscellanea.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Mexico -- Mexico City. (OCoLC)fst01206137
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Trivia and miscellanea.
ISBN 1566563496 (paperback)
9781566563499 (paperback)
1902669061 (cloth)
9781902669069 (cloth)
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