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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana MontañoPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781477328255ISBN 10: 1477328254 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 05 September 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsElectrifying Mexico is an essential book for all students of the history of urban technologies...Electrifying Mexico provides an original contribution to the field by offering a far more complex history of electricity than had existed in previous studies, focusing on the urban cultural history of human imaginations around technology and the intangibility of electrical energy...this engaging book makes a remarkable contribution to the historiography of studying electricity in urban space from the material and symbolic point of view in Mexico, Latin America, and other geographical areas.-- Planning Perspectives (8/25/2022 12:00:00 AM) [Electrifying Mexico] shines as an in-depth exploration of the social and cultural dimensions of the introduction of electrification...indispensable to the literature on modern Mexico.-- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (4/1/2022 12:00:00 AM) Author InformationDiana Montaño is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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