Electrifying Mexico : : Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City / / Diana Montaño.
Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (373 p.) :; 29 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1. Sensing the Beautiful Stranger
- Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Electric City
- Part II
- Chapter 3. Trapped under the Wheels of Modernity
- Chapter 4. Ladrones de Luz: A Scripted Electricscape, 1901-1918
- Part III
- Chapter 5. Becoming Electro-Domésticas: Electrical Appliances, Maids, and Middle-Class Domesticity, 1930s-1950s
- Chapter 6. Th e People, Their Electricscape, and the Vanguard of Labor, 1930s-1960
- Conclusion ¡la electricidad es nuestra! (electricity is ours!)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index