Description: San Miguel De Allende : Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site, Paperback by Covert, Lisa Pinley, ISBN 1496200608, ISBN-13 9781496200600, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "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 pursuedpolicies 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."--
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Book Title: San Miguel De Allende : Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: San Miguel De Allende : Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Latin America / Mexico, Economic History, Globalization, United States / General
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Lisa Pinley Covert
Item Width: 6 in
Series: The Mexican Experience Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
