History of Technology Volume 34

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-08559-6 (ISBN)

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Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic. This is the first English-language volume to bring together a variety of critical perspectives on the history of technology in Latin America from the early-19th century through to the present day.

This special issue, assembled by guest editor David Pretel, brings together a range of experts to explore a plethora of topics in Latin America's technological history. Papers include a study of rural telephony in in 20th-century Latin America; the rise of the ‘Techno-class’ in modern Brazil; an analysis of the rise and fall of three Caribbean commodities; the history of educational technology in Latin America, and science and technology in Cold War Chile.

Special Issue: Technology in Latin American History
Edited by David Pretel (Colegio de Mexico, Mexico) and Helge Wendt (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Germany)

Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

List of Figures
1. David Pretel, Ian Inkster and Helge Wendt: Technology in Latin American History: Perspectives, Scales and Comparisons.
2. Daniel B. Rood: Centrifugal Capitalism: Struggles over Infrastructure in the Sugar Ports of Nineteenth-century Cuba.
3. Diana Montano: Machucados and Salvavidas: Patented Humor in the Technified Spaces of Everyday Life in Mexico City, 1900-1910.
4. Christiane Berth: Bringing Communication to the Countryside: Rural Telephony in Latin America, 1900–1985.
5. Helge Wendt: Interrelations and Disruptions in the Exchange of Knowledge: Coal, Geology, and Industrialisation in Mexico.
6. Josep Simon: Machines and Texts: Writing the History of Educational Technology in Latin America.
7. David Pretel: Technology and the Fates of Three Caribbean Commodities.
8. Eve Buckley: Brazil’s Mid-twentieth-century ‘Techno-class’ and the Search for Moderate Reform.
9. Debora Gerstenberger: Challenging Martial Masculinity: The Intrusion of Digital Computers into the Argentinian Armed Forces in the 1960s.
10. Barbara Silva: Transnational Astronomy: Science, Technology and Local Agenda in Cold War Chile.
11. Helen Yaffe: ¬¬The Curious Case of Cuba's Biotech Revolution.
12. Saul Guerrero: A Song of Water and Fire: the Brief Coming of Age of the Venezuelan Oil Industry’s R&D Program at the turn of the 20th century.
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Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	History of Technology
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-08559-6 / 1350085596
ISBN-13	978-1-350-08559-6 / 9781350085596
Zustand	Neuware