LEADER 04277nam 22005893 450 001 9911009253403321 005 20240614080242.0 010 $a0-520-37809-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520378094 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31326940 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31326940 035 $a(CKB)32273955000041 035 $a(DE-B1597)694822 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520378094 035 $a(OCoLC)1439596229 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932273955000041 100 $a20240614d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMexico at the World's Fairs $eCrafting a Modern Nation 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2018. 210 4$d©1997. 215 $a1 online resource (391 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Series ;$vv.35 311 08$a0-520-41480-2 311 08$a0-520-30107-2 327 $aCover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Porfirian Mexico and World's Fairs -- 1. France and Her Followers -- 2. The Imperatives of Mexican Progress -- 3. Mexico and the World at Large -- 4. The Wizards of Progress: Paris 1889 -- 5. The Aztec Palace and the History of Mexico -- 6. Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition -- 7. Mexican Art and Architecture in Paris -- 8. Mexican Statistics, Maps, Patents, and Governance -- 9. Natural History and Sanitation in the Modern Nation -- 10. Irony -- Part II: World's Fairs and Mexico after the Revolution of 1910 -- 11. Toward Revolutionary Mexico -- 12. The 1922 Rio de Janeiro Fair -- 13. The 1929 Seville Fair -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The Porfirian Wizards of Progress -- Appendix 2. The Economic Cost of World'S Fairs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair--where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted--with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. 410 4$aThe New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Series 606 $aExhibitions$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aExhibitions$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMexicans 606 $aNational characteristics, Mexican 606 $aHISTORY / Latin America / General$2bisacsh 615 0$aExhibitions$xHistory 615 0$aExhibitions$xHistory 615 0$aMexicans. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Mexican. 615 7$aHISTORY / Latin America / General. 676 $a306.4/6 700 $aTenorio-Trillo$b Mauricio$01826809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911009253403321 996 $aMexico at the World's Fairs$94394814 997 $aUNINA