I Saw a City Invincible Urban Portraits of Latin America,9780842024952

I Saw a City Invincible Urban Portraits of Latin America

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ISBN13: 9780842024952
ISBN10: 0842024956
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-10-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords. Latin American cities then be

Table of Contents

Preface
The City as Vision - The Development of Urban Culture in Latin Americap. 1
Tenochtitlan and Mexico City under Aztec and Spanish Rulep. 33
Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquestp. 35
The Aztecs under Spanish Rulep. 47
Viceregal Lima in the Seventeenth Centuryp. 59
Colonial Buenos Airesp. 71
Bahia in the Late Colonial Periodp. 85
Bogota in the Nineteenth Centuryp. 103
Lima in the Nineteenth Centuryp. 119
Buenos Aires in the Early Twentieth Centuryp. 133
The Transformation of Sao Paulop. 149
Another Sao Paulop. 165
Mexico's Megalopolisp. 181
Suggested Readingsp. 203
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