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La capital : the biography of Mexico City

A history of Mexico City from the Aztec empire to the present day
Print Book, English, ©1988
Random House, New York, ©1988
History
640 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780394540696, 0394540697
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The valley and its first inhabitants
The cannibal empire
Motecuhzoma
The Spanish background
Conquest
Birth of the Spanish city
The Indians under Spanish rule
City of silver
The forgotten century
The bourbon era
Independence
A nation betrayed
Juarez and Maximilian
The master of Mexico
Revolution
Revolutionary art, cautious politics
The golden decades
Megalopolis