Funerals, festivals, and cultural politics in Porfirian Mexico / by Esposito, Matthew D., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of national commemorations in Porfirian Mexico -- Introduction : memory, hegemony, and cultural politics in Porfirian Mexico -- Death and the maiden of progress -- The politics of death : state funerals as rites of reconciliation, 1876-89 -- Reviving the dead : holiday commemorations in Porfirian Mexico -- The only show in town : state funerals in the heyday of modernization, 1890-1911 -- The exalted trinity of our national religion : the memorialization of Juárez, Hidalgo, Díaz, and other Mexican heroes -- Heroes laid to rest, the past exhumed : pantheonizations of the independence heroes -- Conclusion : requiem of the regime : sobre las olas, the centenario of 1910, and the Mexican Revolution -- Appendix A: state funerals, 1878-1910 -- Appendix B: state reburials, 1881-1909 -- Appendix C: heroes buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres -- Appendix D: statues on the Paseo de la Reforma.…”