Artifacts of Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Patrice Elizabeth Olsen is associate professor of history at Illinois State University. Klappentext This innovative history utilizes the built environment as a means of tracing the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Patrice Elizabeth Olsen considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments during the critical period from 1920 to 1940. Architects, engineers, politicians, and entrepreneurs alike expressed visions of what modern Mexico should be and sought to improve the nation through an array of initiatives. Their successes and failures, and thus the direction of the revolution, is written in the capital city. The author's interdisciplinary approach offers an important contribution to the study of Mexican political history; and the aesthetics of modernity. Zusammenfassung Considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment! using them as a means to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments from 1920 to 1940. This work offers a study of Mexican political history as well as Latin American urban! social! and cultural history; cultural nationalism; and more.

Autorentext

Patrice Elizabeth Olsen is associate professor of history at Illinois State University.

Klappentext

This innovative history utilizes the built environment as a means of tracing the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Patrice Elizabeth Olsen considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments during the critical period from 1920 to 1940. Architects, engineers, politicians, and entrepreneurs alike expressed visions of what modern Mexico should be and sought to improve the nation through an array of initiatives. Their successes and failures, and thus the direction of the revolution, is written in the capital city. The author's interdisciplinary approach offers an important contribution to the study of Mexican political history; and the aesthetics of modernity.

Zusammenfassung
Considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them as a means to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments from 1920 to 1940. This work offers a study of Mexican political history as well as Latin American urban, social, and cultural history; cultural nationalism; and more.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Preface: Architecture Never Lies Chapter 2 La Revolucion Constructiva (1920-1928) Chapter 3 Gobernar a la Ciudad Es Servirla : The Maximato and Further Institutionalization of the Revolution Chapter 4 La Ciudad, La Casa de Todos Chapter 5 The City and the Expanding Revolution Chapter 6 The Cityscape and New Conceptions of the State Chapter 7 A Home for the Revolution: Patterns and Meaning in Residential Development Chapter 8 Conclusion: The City and the Revolution, in Aggregate