El paradigma porfiriano

By Manuel Perló Cohen

Subjects: Ethics, Drainage, Pearson (S.) and Son, Ltd, History

Description: "Well-documented examination of the struggle to construct drainage works in a perpetually-flooding capital. Sees Don Porfirio as Faust in the drama of Mexican development, and argues that the plan to drain Mexico City was just as much a bid for more political and social control as a response to scientific and salutary imperatives"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.