A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.
A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.
Diana Montaño is an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Acknowledgments 2. Abbreviations 3. Introduction 4. Part I * Chapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger * Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City 5. Part II * Chapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity * Chapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918 6. Part III * Chapter 5. Becoming Electro-Domésticas: Electrical Appliances, Maids, and Middle-Class Domesticity, 1930s–1950s * Chapter 6. The People, Their Electricscape, and the Vanguard of Labor, 1930s-1960 7. Conclusion. ¡La Electricidad Es Nuestra! (Electricity Is Ours!) 8. Notes 9. Bibliography 10. Index
1. Acknowledgments 2. Abbreviations 3. Introduction 4. Part I * Chapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger * Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City 5. Part II * Chapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity * Chapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918 6. Part III * Chapter 5. Becoming Electro-Domésticas: Electrical Appliances, Maids, and Middle-Class Domesticity, 1930s–1950s * Chapter 6. The People, Their Electricscape, and the Vanguard of Labor, 1930s-1960 7. Conclusion. ¡La Electricidad Es Nuestra! (Electricity Is Ours!) 8. Notes 9. Bibliography 10. Index
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