William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

William Beezley and Linda Curcio-Nagy demonstrate the centrality of popular culture to the understanding of history. They analyze song, dance, ceremony, funerals, regalia, icons, exhibitions, protest, and literature to measure values and provide deep insights regarding class, gender, and race. This book is a tour de force.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in Veracruz, 1789–1810Pamela VoekelChapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and ScienceStephen Jay GouldChapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the TangoJohn Charles ChasteenChapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .": Love and other letters from Río FríoWilliam E. FrenchChapter 5: Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889Ingrid E. FeyChapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of Manuel Romero RubioMatthew D. EspositoChapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyBlanca MuratorioChapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJeffrey M. PilcherChapter 9: The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century LimaFanni Muñoz CabrejoChapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument to the RevolutionThomas L. BenjaminChapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor: Carmen Miranda's Samba Performances, 1930–1939Darién J. DavisChapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909–1990Graham E. L. HoltonChapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo RegimeLauren H. DerbyChapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the Pueblo Motif, and the Contest over his LegacySal AcostaChapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in NicaraguaJanet L. Sturman

William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

William Beezley and Linda Curcio-Nagy demonstrate the centrality of popular culture to the understanding of history. They analyze song, dance, ceremony, funerals, regalia, icons, exhibitions, protest, and literature to measure values and provide deep insights regarding class, gender, and race. This book is a tour de force.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in Veracruz, 1789–1810Pamela VoekelChapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and ScienceStephen Jay GouldChapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the TangoJohn Charles ChasteenChapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .": Love and other letters from Río FríoWilliam E. FrenchChapter 5: Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889Ingrid E. FeyChapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of Manuel Romero RubioMatthew D. EspositoChapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyBlanca MuratorioChapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJeffrey M. PilcherChapter 9: The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century LimaFanni Muñoz CabrejoChapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument to the RevolutionThomas L. BenjaminChapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor: Carmen Miranda's Samba Performances, 1930–1939Darién J. DavisChapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909–1990Graham E. L. HoltonChapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo RegimeLauren H. DerbyChapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the Pueblo Motif, and the Contest over his LegacySal AcostaChapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in NicaraguaJanet L. Sturman

William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

William Beezley and Linda Curcio-Nagy demonstrate the centrality of popular culture to the understanding of history. They analyze song, dance, ceremony, funerals, regalia, icons, exhibitions, protest, and literature to measure values and provide deep insights regarding class, gender, and race. This book is a tour de force.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in Veracruz, 1789–1810Pamela VoekelChapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and ScienceStephen Jay GouldChapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the TangoJohn Charles ChasteenChapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .": Love and other letters from Río FríoWilliam E. FrenchChapter 5: Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889Ingrid E. FeyChapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of Manuel Romero RubioMatthew D. EspositoChapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyBlanca MuratorioChapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJeffrey M. PilcherChapter 9: The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century LimaFanni Muñoz CabrejoChapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument to the RevolutionThomas L. BenjaminChapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor: Carmen Miranda's Samba Performances, 1930–1939Darién J. DavisChapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909–1990Graham E. L. HoltonChapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo RegimeLauren H. DerbyChapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the Pueblo Motif, and the Contest over his LegacySal AcostaChapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in NicaraguaJanet L. Sturman