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

• Autore: Glasco S
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2010.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 972/.53
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico City (Mexico) History 18th century; Mexico City (Mexico) Civilization 18th century; Mexico City (Mexico) Social life and customs 18th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing Mexico City
• ISBN: 1-282-91000-0; 9786612910005; 0-230-10961-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792125703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II