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Book SynopsisChapter 1: General Introduction.- Part I. Unpacking the technologies of development: a critique of technology transfer.- Chapter 2 David Pretel. Mexico and the Technology Transfer Debate (1960s-1970s).- Chapter 3: Moisés Gámez. Japanese technical assistance, `Toyodism´, and business transformation. From Toyoda de Mexico to Siderúrgica Nacional, 1954-1970.- Chapter 4 Guillermo Guajardo. (Totopos y Margaritas) U.S. advisors and models for Mexico's industrial and infrastructural development during the Cold War, ca. 1940-1970 - Part II. The hopes and wrath of development.- Chapter 5: Claudia Escalera. Labor-based roads or the Sisyphus myth: institutionalizing the isolation of (rural) localities.- Chapter 6: Jayson Porter. Strong enough to remove dirt and skin: Soap and violence in twentieth-century Guerrero.- Chapter 7: Netzahualcóyotl Gutiérrez. The National Corn Commission: agricultural modernization, biopolitics, and state-making in Mexico, 1947-1961.- Chapter 8: Joel Vargas. Feeding development: rural nutritional projects in Mexico between the 1940s and 1960s.- Part III. Conglomerates of experts.- Chapter 9: Claudia Agostoni. Hospital modernization: ideals, network of experts and technical assistance in post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1940-1960.- Chapter 10: Diana Montaño. Sowing Clouds: Drought, Science and Technical Expertise in the Necaxa, 1949-1962.- Chapter 11: Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez. Aggressive and imaginative: atoms and water in the Mexico-USA border (1963-1968).- Chapter 12: Conclusion.
