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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

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A Paperback / softback by Edward Beatty

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 01/05/2015
    ISBN13: 9780520284906, 978-0520284906
    ISBN10: 0520284909

    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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