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Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico.

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"Beatty's book is a groundbreaking study, a tour de force that should be required reading for anyone interested in economic development or the history of technology in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world." American Historical Review

Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520284890, 978-0520284890
      ISBN10: 0520284895

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico.

      Trade Review
      "Beatty's book is a groundbreaking study, a tour de force that should be required reading for anyone interested in economic development or the history of technology in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world." American Historical Review

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