{"product_id":"electrifying-mexico-9781477328255","title":"Electrifying Mexico","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)\u003cbr\u003e2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner)\u003cbr\u003e2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section\u003cbr\u003e2023 Turriano Book Prize, International Committee for the History of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiana J. Montaño explores the role of electricity in Mexico's economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered la\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eElectrifying Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectrifying Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential book for all students of the history of urban technologies...\u003ci\u003eElectrifying Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA rich and lucid narrative about how electric power weaved into the myriad imaginations that forged Mexico City and conceptualizations of a national utility from the late nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century...the author has produced a foundational text on the history of electrification in Mexico, which will feature heavily in future scholarship on electrification in the Americas...Even if readers’ expertise or research interests lie outside of Mexico and Central America, Montaño’s thematic approach will prove invaluable as a tool for asking useful and productive questions about the history of electrification. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *\u003cbr\u003eMontaño’s excellent cultural history of electricity in Mexico [is] a pioneering work in the field…\u003ci\u003eElectrifying Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e is very well-written and avoids the pitfalls of jargon-heavy cultural history. The book also successfully employs the tools of cultural history to capture Mexico City residents’ everyday experience of electrification and untangle the cultural practices and meanings they attached to its use...the book deserves ample praise for its elegant writing, meticulous research, the original use of sources, and as the first (as far as this reader knows) cultural history of electrification in Mexico. * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003eMontaño has published a creative and exceptionally well-written book that offers U.S. storytelling at its best. Elegantly, larger research debates are woven throughout...thee book is warmly recommended to every historian of technology, consumption, and everyday life. * Iberoamericana *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Becoming Electro-Domésticas: Electrical Appliances, Maids, and Middle-Class Domesticity, 1930s–1950s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The People, Their Electricscape, and the Vanguard of Labor, 1930s-1960\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. ¡La Electricidad Es Nuestra! (Electricity Is Ours!)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408964854103,"sku":"9781477328255","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477328255.jpg?v=1730504888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/electrifying-mexico-9781477328255","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}