Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 213
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-8420-2495-2 • Hardback • October 1995 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-0-8420-2496-9 • Paperback • October 1995 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-1-4616-3757-8 • eBook • October 1995 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
Chapter 1 The City as Vision-The Development of Urban Culture in Latin America
Chapter 2 Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
Chapter 3 The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule
Chapter 4 Viceregal Lima in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 5 Colonial Buenos Aires
Chapter 6 Bahia in the Late Colonial Period
Chapter 7 Bogot· in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 Lima in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 9 Buenos Aires in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 10 The Transformation of S"o Paulo
Chapter 11 Another Sao Paulo
Chapter 12 Mexico's Megalopolis
A particular virtue of the texts chosen is that they not only describe Bogota, Lima, and Buenos Aires, but give us a window into the thinking of contemporary observers as to the complex meaning of urban life-as both an avatar of modernization, and as modern dystopia.
— Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego