Electrifying Mexico

Author : Diana Montaño
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323472

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Electrifying Mexico by Diana Montaño Pdf

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 Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. Diana J. Montaño 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. Montaño 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.

Author : Diana Montaño
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323458

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Electrifying Mexico by Diana Montaño Pdf

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 Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. Diana J. Montaño 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. Montaño 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.

Author : Douglas F. Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136523328

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The Challenge of Rural Electrification by Douglas F. Barnes Pdf

Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity consumption is low. Politicians interfere with the planning and operations of programs, insisting on favored constituents. Yet, as Barnes and his contributors demonstrate, many countries have overcome these obstacles. The Challenge of Rural Electrification provides lessons from successful programs in Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Tunisia, as well as Ireland and the United States. These insights are presented in a format that should be accessible to a broad range of policymakers, development professionals, and community advocates. Barnes and his contributors do not provide a single formula for bringing electricity to rural areas. They do not recommend a specific set of institutional arrangements for the participation of public sector companies, cooperatives, and private firms. They argue instead that successful programs follow a flexible, but still well-defined set of principles: a financially viable plan that clearly accounts for any subsidies; a cooperative relationship between electricity providers and local communities; and an operational separation from day-to-day government and politics.

Author : Germán Vergara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108831277

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Fueling Mexico by Germán Vergara Pdf

Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.

Author : Jürgen Buchenau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496236982

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The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico by Jürgen Buchenau Pdf

Author : Peter B. Soland
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822989660

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Mexican Icarus by Peter B. Soland Pdf

The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was also an effective symbol for promoting the aspirations of the new elite who attained prominence during the war and who fixated on technology as a measure of national progress. The politicians, industrialists, and cultural influencers in the media who made up this group molded the aviator into an avatar of modern citizenship. The figure of the pilot as a model citizen proved an adept vessel for disseminating the values championed by the official party of the Revolution and validating the technological determinism that underpinned its philosophy of development. At the same time, the archetype of the aviator camouflaged problematic aspects of the government’s unification and development plans that displaced and exploited poor and Indigenous communities.

Author : Steven B. Bunker
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Consumers
ISBN : 9780826344540

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Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz by Steven B. Bunker Pdf

"This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City, overturning conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture"--Provided by publisher.

Author : José R. Ralat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781477316528

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American Tacos by José R. Ralat Pdf

Tacos may have been created south of the border, but Americans have made this Mexican food their own, with each style reflective of a time and a place. American Tacos explores them all, taking us on a detailed and delicious journey through the evolution of this dish. In search of every taco variety from California to Texas and beyond, Ralat traveled from coast to coast and border to border, visiting thirty-eight cities across the country. He examines the pervasive crunchy taco and the new Alta California tacos from chefs Wes Avila, Christine Rivera, and Carlos Salgado. He tastes famous Tex-Mex tacos like the puffy taco and breakfast taco, then tracks down the fry bread taco and the kosher taco. And he searches for the regional hybrid tacos of the American South and the modern, chef-driven tacos of restaurants everywhere. Throughout, he tells the story of how each style of taco came to be, creating a rich look at the diverse taco landscape north of the border. Featuring interviews with taqueros and details on taco paraphernalia and the trappings of taco culture, American Tacos is a book no taco fan will want to take a bite without.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015010881566

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Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred Paul Tischendorf
Publisher : Durham, N.C.,Duke U. P
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025464764

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Great Britain and Mexico in the Era of Porfirio Díaz by Alfred Paul Tischendorf Pdf

Author : Solar Energy Society of Canada. National Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UCAL:C2960136

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Energy & Environment by Solar Energy Society of Canada. National Conference Pdf

Author : Alfredo Corchado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101617830

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Midnight in Mexico by Alfredo Corchado Pdf

Named one of the best true crime books of all time by Time In the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. A paramilitary group spun off from the Gulf cartel, the Zetas, controls key drug routes in the north of the country. In 2007, Corchado received a tip that he could be their next target—and he had twenty four hours to find out if the threat was true. Rather than leave his country, Corchado went out into the Mexican countryside to trace investigate the threat. As he frantically contacted his sources, Corchado suspected the threat was his punishment for returning to Mexico against his mother’s wishes. His parents had fled north after the death of their young daughter, and raised their children in California where they labored as migrant workers. Corchado returned to Mexico as a journalist in 1994, convinced that Mexico would one day foster political accountability and leave behind the pervasive corruption that has plagued its people for decades. But in this land of extremes, the gap of inequality—and injustice—remains wide. Even after the 2000 election that put Mexico’s opposition party in power for the first time, the opportunities of democracy did not materialize. The powerful PRI had worked with the cartels, taking a piece of their profit in exchange for a more peaceful, and more controlled, drug trade. But the party’s long-awaited defeat created a vacuum of power in Mexico City, and in the cartel-controlled states that border the United States. The cartels went to war with one another in the mid-2000s, during the war to regain control of the country instituted by President Felipe Calderón, and only the violence flourished. The work Corchado lives for could have killed him, but he wasn't ready to leave Mexico—not then, maybe never. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country—as he raced to save his own life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UVA:X030599953

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Modern Mexico by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francisco Arag—n
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816524939

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The Wind Shifts by Francisco Arag—n Pdf

Authors included: Rosa Alcalá, Franciso Aragón, Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, Brenda Cárdenas, Albino Carrillo, Steven Cordova, Eduardo C. Corral, David Dominguez, John Olivares Espinoza, Gina Franco, Venessa Maria Engel-Fuentes, Kevin A. González, David Hernandez, Scott Inguito, Sheryl Luna, Carl Marcum, María Meléndez, Carolina Monsivais, Adela Najarro, Urayoán Noel, Deborah Parédez, Emmy Pérez, Paul Martínez Pompa, Lidia Torres.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Exporter, July 1923 by Anonim Pdf