Research Guides: The City Research Guide: Tenochtitlan/Mexico City

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The country domain for Mexico is mx. For example, you might want to search Google for Mexico City poverty site:mx.

La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell
Call Number: 972 Kan

From the ancient geological rumblings that formed the city's unique setting to the recent tremors that devastated the city in 1985, the capital's complex story unfolds.
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture by Stephanie Merrim
Call Number: 972.5302 Mer

This book tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture--cities, festivals, and wonder--from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic by Richard A. Warren
Call Number: 972.5304 War

This book demonstrates the crucial role that the urban masses played in shaping political change as Mexico struggled to become a stable, independent nation state in the nineteenth century.
Lost Cities of the Maya by Sydney Claude; Picasso Baudez
Call Number: 972.81 Bau

The rare photographs, documents, paintings, and drawings in this history of America's famous pyramid builders answers some of the most puzzling questions about the Mayan civilization.