View of the cathedral and the Zócalo from the ruins of the Templo Mayor
From Introduction
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Fig. 1. View of the cathedral and the Zócalo from the ruins of the Templo Mayor. (Photograph by the author.)
From Introduction
Fig. 2. Fue el Estado [It was the state] demonstration. (Photograph courtesy of Eduardo Velasco Vásquez and Rexiste.)
From Chapter One
Fig. 3. The Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, circa 1550. (A color version of this image is available online. Courtesy of Uppsala University Library.)
From Chapter One
Fig. 4. The Plan of the Plaza Mayor, 1562–66. (Courtesy of University of Arizona Special Collections.)
From Chapter One
Fig. 5. Sixteenth-century Mexico City, plan reconstructed by Antonio García Cubas, 1929. The borders of the Spanish town or traza are darker (red). (A color version of this image is available online. Courtesy of the Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de México, AHCDMX.)
From Chapter One
Fig. 6. Tenochtitlán. Plan attributed to Hernán Cortés, Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania narrativo . . . (Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1524). (Image courtesy of Newberry Library, Chicago.)
From Chapter Two
Fig. 7. El parián, by an unknown artist, circa 1770. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. (A color version of this image is available online. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images.)
From Chapter Two
Fig. 8. Plaza Mayor de la Ciudad de México, by an unknown artist, circa 1766. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Historia, Ciudad de México. (A color version of this image is available online. Courtesy of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.)
From Chapter Two
Fig. 9. La Plaza Mayor de México, by Cristóbal de Villalpando, circa 1695. Oil on canvas. Corsham Court Collection, Wiltshire. (A color version of this image is available online. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images.)
From Chapter Three
Fig. 10. Procession of the caballeros tigres (tiger lords), Gran desfile histórico, 1910. (Courtesy of the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin.)
From Chapter Three
Fig. 11. El Emperador Moctezuma, Gran desfile histórico, 1910. (Courtesy Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin.)
From Chapter Four
Fig. 12. Mexican Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos speaks during a rally in Mexico City, May 1, 2006—International Worker’s Day. (A color version of this image is available online. Photo by David Cilia, courtesy of Reuters Pictures.)
From Chapter Five
Fig. 13. A float symbolizing the Quetzalcóatl, or the Plumed Serpent, passes in front of the Palacio Nacional during the Bicentenario in the Zócalo in Mexico City, September 2010. (Courtesy of AP Photo, Alexandre Meneghini.)