1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002246870203316

Autore

HAZLITT, Henry

Titolo

What you should know about inflation / Henry Hazlitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Nostrand, 1960

Descrizione fisica

VI, 152 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

332

Collocazione

332 HAZ 1 (IEP II 36)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792125703321

Autore

Glasco S

Titolo

Constructing Mexico City [[electronic resource] ] : Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority / / by S. Glasco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-91000-0

9786612910005

0-230-10961-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

972/.53

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Ethnology—Latin America

Social structure

Equality

America—History

History, Modern

Area studies

Urban Studies/Sociology

Latin American Culture

Social Structure, Social Inequality

History of the Americas

Modern History

Area Studies



Mexico City (Mexico) History 18th century

Mexico City (Mexico) Civilization 18th century

Mexico City (Mexico) Social life and customs 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.