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Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico - Couverture souple

Beatty, Edward

 
9780520284906: Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520284909 ISBN 13 : 9780520284906
Editeur : University of California Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520284909
ISBN 13 
9780520284906
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
354
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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