Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (New Historicism)
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Book Description
This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fairwhere its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism.
About the Author
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (New Historicism),Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo,University of California Press,0520202678,19th century,20th century,Anthropology - Cultural,General,History,History - General History,History: World,International Economic Relations,Latin America - Mexico,Mexico,Popular Culture - General,Technical Information Communication,Technology,Trade shows
Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (New Historicism)
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