D Montao

Electrifying Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9781477328255
• ISBN-10: 1477328254
• Artikelnr.: 67523119

Autorenporträt

Diana Montaño is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Abbreviations
3. Introduction
4. Part I
* Chapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger
* Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City
5. Part II
* Chapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity
* Chapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918
6. Part III
* Chapter 5. Becoming Electro-Domésticas: Electrical Appliances, Maids,
and Middle-Class Domesticity, 1930s-1950s
* Chapter 6. The People, Their Electricscape, and the Vanguard of
Labor, 1930s-1960
7. Conclusion. ¡La Electricidad Es Nuestra! (Electricity Is Ours!)
8. Notes
9. Bibliography
10. Index