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¡Venezuela Progresa! Dictatorship, Spectacle and the Construction of Modernity. Abstract: PhD Thesis

Now that my PhD thesis is officially submitted and the process is finally over, I’m posting my abstract here.

Pérez Jiménez: the original “hot rodding” president

The Pastor Maldonado spectacle was prefigured by other speed-related feats in the 1950s under dictator Pérez Jiménez…..

Introduction: The “New Caracas,” or the Spectacle of Modernity in 1950s Venezuela.

Photo: Collection Archivo Histórico de Miraflores Project Summary The “New Caracas,” or the Spectacle of Modernity in 1950s Venezuela. Skyscrapers, space-age hotels, record-beating motorways, cutting edge hospitals, opulent social clubs, designer shops. From the end of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, the military government inscribed a visual shorthand of modernity onto Caracas, carving away […]