La Capital: The Biography of Mexico CityRandom House, 1988 - 640 σελίδες The history of Mexico City is a sweeping, dramatic saga of individuals confronting victory and defeat, opulence and misery, euphoria and catastrophe. A colorful panorama, told by a Latin American correspondent of the New York Times. 16 pages of photos. |
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... buildings clus- tered around open squares . The Spanish quarter repeated the pattern already established in the Caribbean islands . Its focal point was the central plaza - later called the Zócalo surrounded by the administrative palace ...
... buildings clus- tered around open squares . The Spanish quarter repeated the pattern already established in the Caribbean islands . Its focal point was the central plaza - later called the Zócalo surrounded by the administrative palace ...
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... buildings and Cathedral . It became known as the " isle of curs " for the thousands of hungry dogs huddled there to escape the waters . Describing the inundation , a priest compared Mexico City to a sinking vessel : " Her houses and ...
... buildings and Cathedral . It became known as the " isle of curs " for the thousands of hungry dogs huddled there to escape the waters . Describing the inundation , a priest compared Mexico City to a sinking vessel : " Her houses and ...
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... buildings destroyed by earthquakes and fires . The majority of the poor were crammed into dank one- or two - story buildings known as vecindades . Once inhabited by wealthier residents , many of the vecindades were now owned by the ...
... buildings destroyed by earthquakes and fires . The majority of the poor were crammed into dank one- or two - story buildings known as vecindades . Once inhabited by wealthier residents , many of the vecindades were now owned by the ...
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Prologue | 3 |
The Valley and Its First Inhabitants | 9 |
The Cannibal Empire | 26 |
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Alemán army Aztec became buildings cacique capital capital's Cárdenas Carranza century Church City's claimed clergy colonial Conquest conquistadores Cortés Cortés's Coyoacán creoles Crown decades Díaz del Castillo Diego economic elite encomiendas estates European father Félix Díaz forces foreign French gachupínes Guzmán hacienda hacienda owners Hidalgo Huerta Huitzilopochtli hundred Ibid Indian inhabitants Juárez king labor lake Lake Texcoco land lived Madero Maximilian merchants mestizos Mexican Mexico City military monarch Morelos Motecuhzoma murals National native Nezahualpilli Obregón palace peasants pesos plaza police political politicians poor population Porfirian Porfirio Porfirio Díaz president priests prisoners provinces pulque Quoted rebel religious Revolution revolutionary Rivera royal ruler rural Santa Anna silver social Spain Spaniards Spanish streets Tenochtitlán Teotihuacán Tepanecas Texcoco thousand Tlacaelel Tlatelolco Tlaxcalans Totonacs trade tribes tribute troops urban Valley of Mexico vassal Veracruz viceroy villages wealthy women workers World wrote Zapata Zócalo
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