Christina M. Jimenez is a professor of history and department chair at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research and teaching interests include Mexican history, Latin American history, comparative urban history, citizenship studies, polit
"Making an Urban Public brings attention to the ways that
ordinary people experienced modernization and attempted to shape
the organization of urban space. . . . She shows that nonelite
citizens of Morelia, despite attempts from above to exclude them,
enthusiastically participated in urban political culture and
creatively deployed various rhetorical strategies to pursue their
right to the city." --New Books in Latin American Studies
"Making an Urban Public presents a striking and original
interpretation of Mexican urban history. Christina Jimenez
challenges traditional narratives that foreground resistance and
disempowerment. She provides a sweeping new vision of a contentious
political sphere in which city dwellers' increasingly pointed
demands for urban services helped them to find a political voice in
turn-of-the century Mexico." --Chris Boyer, University of
Illinois at Chicago
"Jimenez's insightful approach is enhanced by her superb writing
style." --John Mason Hart, The University of Houston
"Masterful appropriately describes Christina Jimenez's historical
analysis of Morelia from 1879 to 1932. Without resort to
methodological jargon or theoretical claims, the author writes
judicially about the creation of a Liberal moral economy that
included the right to petition and receive an answer and
investigates the meaning (in different words) of the urban patria
chica with its own imagined community." --William H. Beezley,
University of Arizona
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