Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico /

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In the late 19th century, Mexicans quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many other goods and services across the economy. New technologies underlay rapid economic growth as well as cultural change and social dislo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beatty, Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology transfer.
Technological innovations.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Innovations > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Transfert de technologie > Mexique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Transfert de technologie > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Transfert de technologie > Europe septentrionale > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Technology transfer > Europe, Northern > History > 19th century.
Technology transfer > United States > History > 19th century.
Technology transfer > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Technological innovations > Mexico > History > 19th century.
United States.
Mexico.
Northern Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the late 19th century, Mexicans quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many other goods and services across the economy. New technologies underlay rapid economic growth as well as cultural change and social dislocation. This book traces general trends across the Mexican economy and offers new case studies of the canonical technologies of the first industrial revolution and of the late nineteenth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520960558

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