and epochs of the history of the "Great Sea": the physical setting

the experimental vessel carried a sheep

hailed as a masterpiece when it was first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1858

ISBN 978-1-60606-473-3

The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates Renaissance and epochs of the historyEdited by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite