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Review: Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

Citation:

Diane E. Davis. 2018. “Review: Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico.” The American Historical Review, 123, 5, Pp. 1706-1707. Publisher's Version
Review: Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

Abstract:

Democracy, street vending, violence, and public space are well-addressed themes in the literature on twentieth-century Mexico. In addition to my own account (Diane E. Davis, Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century [1994]), among the best works in this regard are books from John Lear (Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City [2001]), Pablo Piccato (City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931 [2001]), and John Cross (Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City [1998]). In most of the writings on these interconnected themes, whether historiographical, sociological, or otherwise, the geographic site of inquiry is usually Mexico City.
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