Author: Oscar R. Enríquez
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 117
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Cuatro conferencias sobre la industria eléctrica mexicana
Author: Oscar R. Enríquez
Publisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 117
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 117
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Cuatro conferencias sobre la industria elétrica mexicana
Author: Oscar R. Enriquez
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Category : Electric industries
Languages : es
Pages : 144
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Category : Electric industries
Languages : es
Pages : 144
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Electrifying Mexico
Author: Diana Montaño
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner) 2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Many visitors to Mexico City’s 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. Diana J. Montaño explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scientifically enlightened “empire of peace.” She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montaño documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner) 2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Many visitors to Mexico City’s 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. Diana J. Montaño explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scientifically enlightened “empire of peace.” She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montaño documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Recent Mexican Acquisitions of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
Author: Edward Beatty
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520960556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies—the sewing machine, a glass bottle–blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining—Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520960556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies—the sewing machine, a glass bottle–blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining—Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Business America
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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