Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (eBook)

Edward Beatty (Autor)

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2015
360 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96055-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 19th century • automation of technology • cyanide • Economic Development • Economic Growth • economic historian • Emerging Technologies • glass bottle manufacturing • History • History of technology • history students • history teachers • imported technology of 19th century • industrialism • Latin America • Manufacturing • Mexican economy • mexican patents • Mexico • second industrial revolution • sewing machines • students and scholars • Technologies • technology and imports • technology in mexico • turn of the century technology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96055-6 / 0520960556
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96055-8 / 9780520960558