Electrifying Mexico
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2023
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2825-5 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2825-5 (ISBN)
2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner)
2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section
Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Diaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order.
Diana J. Montano explores the role of electricity in Mexico's economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scientifically enlightened "empire of peace." She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montano documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.
2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner)
2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section
Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Diaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order.
Diana J. Montano explores the role of electricity in Mexico's economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scientifically enlightened "empire of peace." She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montano documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.
Diana Montaño is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger
Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City
Part II
Chapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity
Chapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918
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
Conclusion. ¡La Electricidad Es Nuestra! (Electricity Is Ours!)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2825-4 / 1477328254 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2825-5 / 9781477328255 |
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