Research Catalog

Title

San Miguel de Allende : Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site / Lisa Pinley Covert.

Author

Covert, Lisa Pinley

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its "timeless" quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel--on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico--worked to demonstrate that it preserved an authentic quality, earning designation as a "typical Mexican town" by the Guanajuato state legislature in 1939. With the town's historic status guaranteed, a coalition of local elites and transnational figures turned to an international solution--tourism--to revive San Miguel's economy and to reinforce its Mexican identity. 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-born populations. By exploring the intersections of economic development and national identity formation in San Miguel, she reveals how towns and cities in Mexico grappled with change over the course of the twentieth century. Covert similarly identifies the historical context shaping the promise and perils of a shift from an agricultural to a service-based economy. In the process, she demonstrates how San Miguel could be both typically Mexican and palpably foreign and how the histories behind each process were inextricably intertwined."--
• "An exploration of the intersections of economic development and national identity formation in San Miguel de Allende during the twentieth century which analyzes both the Mexican and the foreign population within national, international, and transnational contexts"--

Series Statement

The Mexican experience

Uniform Title

Mexican experience.

Subject

• HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
• San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) > History
• Mexico > San Miguel de Allende

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-5574

ISBN

• 9781496200389
• 1496200381
• 9781496200600
• 1496200608

LCCN

2016042788

OCLC

962233048

Author

Covert, Lisa Pinley, author.

Title

San Miguel de Allende : Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site / Lisa Pinley Covert.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Mexican experience

Mexican experience.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5574