Informal empire : Mexico and Central America in Victorian culture / Robert D. Aguirre.

  • Aguirre, Robert D.
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[2005], ©2005
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xxix, 198 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-190) and index.

Contents

"Open for inspection" : Mexico at the Egyptian Hall in 1824 -- Buena vista : panoramas and the visualization of conquest -- Agencies of the letter : the British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the ruins of Central America -- Freak show : the Aztec children and the ruins of race.

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  • 0816644993
  • 0816645000