Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
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Author_Edward Beatty
automation of technology
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cyanide
economic development
economic growth
economic historian
emerging technologies
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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
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- ISBN 9780520284890
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
