{"product_id":"city-at-the-center-of-the-world-space-history-and-modernity-in-quito-pitt-latin-american-series-349-9780822961666","title":"City at the Center of the World: Space  History  and Modernity in Quito (Pitt Latin American Series  349)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the seventeenth century  local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the \\u201cnew Rome.\\u201d It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants  the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness  and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth century  elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern  advanced societypoised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world.  In this original cultural history  Ernesto Capello analyzes the formation of memory  myth  and modernity through the eyes of Quitos diverse populations. By employing Mikhail Bakhtins concept of chronotopes  Capello views the configuration of time and space in narratives that defined Quitos identity and its place in the world. He explores the proliferation of these imaginings in architecture  museums  monuments  tourism  art  urban planning  literature  religion  indigenous rights  and politics. To Capello  these tropes began to crystallize at the end of the nineteenth century  serving as a tool for distinct groups who laid claim to history for economic or political gain during the upheavals of modernism.  As Capello reveals  Quitos society and its stories mutually constituted each other. In the process of both destroying and renewing elements of the past  each chronotope fed and perpetuated itself. Modern Quito thus emerged at the crux of Hispanism and Liberalism  as an independent global society struggling to keep the memory of its colonial and indigenous roots alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651712409653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822961660","price":57.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822961666.jpg?v=1781838056","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/city-at-the-center-of-the-world-space-history-and-modernity-in-quito-pitt-latin-american-series-349-9780822961666","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}