Mexico otherwise : modern Mexico in the eyes of foreign observers / Jürgen Buchenau [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchenau, Jürgen, 1964-

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

History.

Mexico--History--1810---Sources.

Mexico.

Mexico--Social life and customs--19th century--Sources.

Mexico--Social life and customs--20th century--Sources.

Mexico--Description and travel.

Mexico--Foreign public opinion.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvii, 285 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Summary:

A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.

Contents:

Whither the new nation? A land of contrasts / Alexander von Humboldt

A sketch of Mexican society / Joel Poinsett

Life in a convent / Fanny Calderón de la Barca

With the Stars and Stripes in Mexico /William Henry

A view of tropical Veracruz / Carl Sartorius

Defending the French intervention / Emmanuel Domenech

Life in Maximilian's Mexico City / Paula von Kollonitz

The modernization of Mexico. Three days of fiesta in Mexico City / Clément Bertie-Marriott

Culture shock in northern Mexico / Fanny Chambers Gooch

From the Tarascos to Porfirio Díaz / Carl Lumholtz

Military diazpotism in theory and practice / Charles Flandrau

The barbarous Porfiriato / John K. Turner

Revolution and reconstruction. With Zapata in Cuernavaca / Rosa King

Viva Pancoh Villa! / John Reed

Keeping house in revolutionary Mexico City / Luise Böker

A revolution for the Indians? / B. Traven

Mexico for the Mexicans / Luis Araquistáin

A country without conservatives / Evelyn Waugh

Freedom for Mexican women? / Verna Millan

The "Mexican miracle" and its collapse. The downside of the miracle / Franz Böker

The best of tradition and modernity / Irene Nicholson

Tourism, bullfights, and bullets (letters to President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz)

Survival in the shantytown / Judith Adler Hellman

Travels among the Zapatistas / Isabel Tree

The dead women of Juárez / Sam Quinones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285).

ISBN:

0826323138

OCLC:

57357182