About the Author

Christina M. Jiménez 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

Reviews

Making an Urban Public is an important contribution to the history of Mexican urbanization and urban politics.-- "American Historical Review"

Making an Urban Public presents a striking and original interpretation of Mexican urban history. Christina Jiménez 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