"From its striking cover to its engaging prose, Lisa Pinley Covert's San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site enriches a growing, and increasingly sophisticated, body of historical scholarship on twentieth-century Mexican tourism development."—Evan Ward, H-LatAm
"Covert’s study is invaluable. . . . Its breadth of sources includes several private archives and interviews with dozens of residents. The study enriches the historiographies of Mexican-US relations, Mexican industrialization, cultural imperialism, gender, and inequality. . . . Given these advantages and a longue durée scope, running from 1935 to the near present, San Miguel de Allende is instructive reading for a host of scholars and eminently assignable to undergraduates."—Andrew Paxman, Hispanic American Historical Review
"San Miguel de Allende is a valuable contribution to new fields that reveal a shared urban history in Mexico and the United States."—Marcel Sebastian Anduiza Pimentel, Pacific Historical Review
“San Miguel de Allende explores Mexican national identity from a bold new perspective. Drawing on a remarkably broad range of sources Covert makes a convincing case that the remaking of San Miguel de Allende’s past anticipates the modern Mexican right’s cultural and economic project for the country’s future.”—Ben Fallaw, author of Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico
“A richly detailed work that blends history with cultural politics, San Miguel de Allende is a major contribution to several related fields, most clearly Mexican history, transnational history, and American studies. Its clear, concise, and compelling prose makes it easy to recommend and teach.”—Jason Ruiz, author of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire
