San Miguel De Allende - Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Pinley Covert is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston. Klappentext Lisa Pinley Covert is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston. Zusammenfassung Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation! the town of San Miguel de Allende discovered that its "timeless" quality could provide a way forward. Lisa Pinley Covert examines how this once small! quiet town became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to one of Mexico's largest foreign populations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making a Typical Mexican Town 2. Good Neighbors, Good Catholics, and Competing Visions 3. Bringing the Mexican Miracle to San Miguel 4. Containing Threats to Patriarchal Order and the Nation 5. San Miguel’s Two Service Economies Epilogue: From Typical Town to World Heritage Site Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Pinley Covert
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781496200389
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0038-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries