Visions of the Emerald City ：Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

Publication subTitle ：Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico

Author： Mark Overmyer-Velazquez  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9780822387886

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822337904

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822337775

Subject： K731.9 local annals

Keyword： Oaxaca de Juâarez (Mexico) -- History -- 19th century., Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910., Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) -- History -- 19th century.

Language： ENG

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Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity” during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of Oaxaca but also a vital commercial hub for all of southern Mexico. As such, it was a showcase for many of Díaz’s modernizing and state-building projects. Drawing on in-depth research in archives in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and the United States, Mark Overmyer-Velázquez describes how Oaxacans, both elites and commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of a modern Mexico.

Incorporating a nuanced understanding of visual culture into his analysis, Overmyer-Velázquez shows how ideas of modernity figured in Oaxacans’ ideologies of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion and how they were expressed in Oaxaca City’s streets, plazas, buildings, newspapers, and public rituals. He pays particular attention to the roles of national and regional elites, the Catholic church, and popular groups—such as Oaxaca City’s madams and prostitutes—in shaping the discourses and practices of modernity. At the same time, he illuminates th

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Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Introduction: Writing the Emerald City

1. La Vallistocracia: The Formation of Oaxaca’s Ruling Class

2. The Legible City: Constructed, Symbolic, and Disciplined Spaces

3. ‘‘A New Political Religious Order’’: Church, State, and Workers

4. ‘‘A Necessary Evil’’: Regulating Public Space and Public Women

5. Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity

Conclusions: The Consequences of Modernity

Appendix Articles Cited from the 1857 Constitution

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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