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Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico

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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward BeattyPublish date:2015-05-01Pages:360
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284906ISBN-10:520284909UPC:9780520284906Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, Sociology, Social HistoryBook Topic:MexicoSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXG3SC0MC
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284906ISBN-10:520284909UPC:9780520284906Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, Sociology, Social HistoryBook Topic:MexicoSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXG3SC0MC
Edward Beatty is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911.
Publisher: University of California Press

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