Currents of Progress, Toy Store for Tourists: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberals View the Niagara Falls

<p>The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA. In diaries and travelogues, some of them articulated their v...

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Main Author: Astrid Haas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hp561nv