Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity /

Garrigan, Shelley E.

Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / [electronic resource] : Shelley E. Garrigan. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012. - 233 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780816680153 (electronic bk.)




Cultural property--Social aspects--Mexico.
Exhibitions--History--Mexico--19th century.
Museums--Social aspects--Mexico.
National characteristics, Mexican.


Mexico--Antiquities--Social aspects.
Mexico--Cultural policy--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

F1210 / .G47 2012

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