City at the center of the world : space, history, and modernity in Quito /
Author / Creator: | Capello, Ernesto. |
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Imprint: | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2011. |
Description: | xx, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pitt Latin American studies Pitt Latin American series. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8541372 |
Summary: | In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the "new Rome." It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness, and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth century, elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern, advanced society--poised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world. |
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Physical Description: | xx, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780822961666 0822961660 |