Informal empire : Mexico and Central America in Victorian culture / Robert D. Aguirre.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005], ©2005.

xxix, 198 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-190) and index.

"Open for inspection" : Mexico at the Egyptian Hall in 1824 -- Buena vista : panoramas and the visualization of conquest -- Agencies of the letter : the British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the ruins of Central America -- Freak show : the Aztec children and the ruins of race.