Resurrecting Tenochtitlan : : Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City /

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan : : Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City / / Delia Cosentino, Adriana Zavala.

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan. After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for r...

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Cosentino, Delia,
Zavala, Adriana,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 64 color and 25 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Imagining Tenochtitlan
  • 2 Archaeologists Set the Stage
  • 3 The Civic Art of Early Maps
  • 4 Picturing the Capital, Integrating the Nation
  • 5 The Perfect Tenochtitlan
  • 6 Mexico City: Yesterday, Today, and Always
  • 7 Tenochtitlan Restaged
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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