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San Miguel de Allende
Get PDFStruggling 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
The Political Economy of Mexico's Independence Heroes: Selling Public History in San Miguel de Allende
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The AIA and Public-Private Collaborations in Response to the 1950 Cusco Earthquake
Get PDFThis report provides an overview of my research at the Rockefeller Archive Center on the role of the American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA) in the aftermath of the 1950 earthquake in Cusco, Peru. More specifically, the United Nations contracted AIA director Robert "Pete" Hudgens to lead a mission to evaluate Cusco and make recommendations about its reconstruction and long-term development. The report was extensive and included detailed recommendations about the broader rural area, in addition to the city of Cusco. I hoped to learn more about that collaboration and how it fit into the AIA's mission. Archival materials from Nelson A. Rockefeller's personal papers and the Rockefeller Family Public Relations Department papers revealed a complex web of public-private negotiations over who would fund and administer Cusco's development plan. And yet, many of the plans never came to fruition, raising questions about the extent to which these collaborations benefited most Peruvians
<i>Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938</i>. By J. Justin Castro. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. 288. $70.00.)
No full textPractically Invisible: Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenticity. By Kimbra L. Smith. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, p. 256, $55.00.
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Planeamiento urbano post-desastre, patrimonio cultural y el templo de Santiago en Cusco
Get PDFThis article analyzes urban planning and historic preservation following Cusco’s 1950 earthquake through a case study of the Templo de Santiago. Reports and correspondence from various organizations reveals how budgetary decisions and planning goals shaped preservation and development in Cusco. The case of the Templo de Santiago illustrates the challenges faced by neighborhoods affiliated with historic sites that were not priorities for reconstruction or tourism after the earthquake. This case also demonstrates how the language of historic preservation facilitated an economic transformation that went far beyond the scope of post-disaster relief, and that those transformations had long-term implications for cusqueños.Mediante un estudio de caso, se analiza la planificación urbana y la conservación histórica del templo de Santiago, después del terremoto de Cusco ocurrido en 1950. Las decisiones presupuestarias y los objetivos de planificación dieron forma a la conservación y el desarrollo en la ciudad de Cusco. Es así que el caso del templo de Santiago ilustra los desafíos que enfrentaron los barrios afiliados a sitios históricos que no eran prioridades para la reconstrucción o el turismo posterior al sismo. Este caso también demuestra cómo el lenguaje de la preservación histórica facilitó una transformación económica que fue más allá del alcance del socorro posterior al desastre, y las implicancias a largo plazo para los cusqueños
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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