City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 / / Anna Rose Alexander |
Autore | Alexander Anna Rose |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.10972 |
Collana | History of the urban environment |
Soggetto topico |
Social medicine - Mexico
Social medicine - Mexico - Mexico City - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-8146-7 |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796327003321 |
Alexander Anna Rose | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 / / Anna Rose Alexander |
Autore | Alexander Anna Rose |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.10972 |
Collana | History of the urban environment |
Soggetto topico |
Social medicine - Mexico
Social medicine - Mexico - Mexico City - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-8146-7 |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808266203321 |
Alexander Anna Rose | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The civilizing machine : a cultural history of Mexican railroads, 1876-1910 / / Michael Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Michael <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 385.097209034 |
Collana | The Mexican experience |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - Mexico - History - 20th century
Railroads - Mexico - Public opinion - History - 20th century Railroads - Social aspects - Mexico - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-4962-0904-4
0-8032-4943-8 |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato -- De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom -- Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony -- The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident -- La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790779803321 |
Matthews Michael <1978-> | ||
Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The civilizing machine : a cultural history of Mexican railroads, 1876-1910 / / Michael Matthews |
Autore | Matthews Michael <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 385.097209034 |
Collana | The Mexican experience |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - Mexico - History - 20th century
Railroads - Mexico - Public opinion - History - 20th century Railroads - Social aspects - Mexico - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-4962-0904-4
0-8032-4943-8 |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato -- De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom -- Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony -- The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident -- La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806803903321 |
Matthews Michael <1978-> | ||
Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Looking like the enemy : Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican state, and US hegemony, 1897-1945 / / Jerry García |
Autore | García Jerry <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.7207309/04 |
Soggetto topico |
Japanese - Mexico - History - 20th century
Japanese - Mexico - Ethnic identity Japanese - Mexico - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Mexico |
ISBN | 0-8165-9886-X |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the Japanese experiment in Mexico -- Japanese Mexicans, immigration, and the public imagination, 1897-1910 -- Japanese Orientalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Japanese and the post revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1930s -- The long reach of the American empire : U.S. hegemony and Mexican propaganda, 1941-1945 -- Prisoners without chains : the removal of Japanese Mexicans during World War II, 1942-1945 -- El Comite Japones de Ayuda Mutua : hacienda internment camps and Japanese resistance, 1942-1945 -- Conclusion : I am sixty percent Mexican and sixty percent Japanese. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789019203321 |
García Jerry <1963-> | ||
Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Looking like the enemy : Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican state, and US hegemony, 1897-1945 / / Jerry García |
Autore | García Jerry <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.7207309/04 |
Soggetto topico |
Japanese - Mexico - History - 20th century
Japanese - Mexico - Ethnic identity Japanese - Mexico - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Mexico |
ISBN | 0-8165-9886-X |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : the Japanese experiment in Mexico -- Japanese Mexicans, immigration, and the public imagination, 1897-1910 -- Japanese Orientalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Japanese and the post revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1930s -- The long reach of the American empire : U.S. hegemony and Mexican propaganda, 1941-1945 -- Prisoners without chains : the removal of Japanese Mexicans during World War II, 1942-1945 -- El Comite Japones de Ayuda Mutua : hacienda internment camps and Japanese resistance, 1942-1945 -- Conclusion : I am sixty percent Mexican and sixty percent Japanese. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806230803321 |
García Jerry <1963-> | ||
Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Searching for golden empires : epic cultural collisions in sixteenth-century America / / William K. Hartmann ; jacket designed by Leigh McDonald |
Autore | Hartmann William K. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 970.01 |
Soggetto topico |
Cibola, Seven Cities of
Spaniards - America - History |
ISBN | 0-8165-9872-X |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Simple Tales and Lost Truths -- The Beginning : Cortes and the Gold of Mexico -- Cortes Expands the Frontier -- Shipwrecked in Unknown Country : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca and Friends -- The New Viceroy Ponders the North -- The Case of the "Lying Monk" : Marcos de Niza's Journey to the Seven Cities of Cíbola -- Marcos Races Back to Mexico City -- Cortes vs. the Viceroy : Discovering the Colorado River and "Country Enough for Many Years of Conquest" -- To Cíbola by Land and Sea : The Coronado Entrada of 1540 -- Entering the Seven Cities of Cíbola -- Meanwhile...(On the Colorado River, in Spain, and in Mexico City) -- Coronado Fights a War, Reaches Kansas, and Returns to Mexico -- Aftermath: Impacts on Culture and Understanding. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786510003321 |
Hartmann William K. | ||
Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Searching for golden empires : epic cultural collisions in sixteenth-century America / / William K. Hartmann ; jacket designed by Leigh McDonald |
Autore | Hartmann William K. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina | 970.01 |
Soggetto topico |
Cibola, Seven Cities of
Spaniards - America - History |
ISBN | 0-8165-9872-X |
Classificazione | HIS025000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue: Simple Tales and Lost Truths -- The Beginning : Cortes and the Gold of Mexico -- Cortes Expands the Frontier -- Shipwrecked in Unknown Country : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca and Friends -- The New Viceroy Ponders the North -- The Case of the "Lying Monk" : Marcos de Niza's Journey to the Seven Cities of Cíbola -- Marcos Races Back to Mexico City -- Cortes vs. the Viceroy : Discovering the Colorado River and "Country Enough for Many Years of Conquest" -- To Cíbola by Land and Sea : The Coronado Entrada of 1540 -- Entering the Seven Cities of Cíbola -- Meanwhile...(On the Colorado River, in Spain, and in Mexico City) -- Coronado Fights a War, Reaches Kansas, and Returns to Mexico -- Aftermath: Impacts on Culture and Understanding. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817644103321 |
Hartmann William K. | ||
Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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