Technocratic visions: engineers, technology, and society in Mexico

Poetry in stone and iron : the architect Emilio Dondé Preciat and the construction of modern Mexico City /Marcela Saldaña Solís --Revelations from rediscovered artifacts of the National School of Engineers' Construction Materials Collection /Lucero Morelos Rodríquez and Francisco Omar Escamilla...

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Weitere Verfasser: Castro, J. Justin 1981- (HerausgeberIn), Garza, James Alex (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh, Pa University of Pittsburgh Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:Poetry in stone and iron : the architect Emilio Dondé Preciat and the construction of modern Mexico City /Marcela Saldaña Solís --Revelations from rediscovered artifacts of the National School of Engineers' Construction Materials Collection /Lucero Morelos Rodríquez and Francisco Omar Escamilla González --Engineering in the Porfirian landscape : technology and social change in the Basin of Mexico, 1890-1911 /James A. Garza --The preoccupation with safety : mining engineers, education, and practice in modern Mexico /Rocio Gomez --Revolutionary technoscience : science, industry, education and the Mexican state /Juan José Saldaña --Technocratic diplomacy : constitutionalist engineers as diplomats to the United States --Punitive engineering and military modernization : reform, revolution and reconstruction in Mexico and the United States, 1916-1924 /Jayson Maurice Porter --Flying machines as a measure of Mexico : national reconstruction, the cultural revolution, and the maturation of Mexico's national aviation program, 1921-1945 /Pete Soland--A social history of urban expertise : between technobureaucratic rule and the right to the city in twentieth century Mexico /Matthew Vitz.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index
Beschreibung:vi, 282 pages illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822947486