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Title Technocratic visions : engineers, technology, and society in Mexico / edited by Justin Castro and James A. Garza.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
Contents 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 -- 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.
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Subject Engineering -- Mexico -- History.
Engineering.
Mexico.
History.
Technocracy -- History.
Technocracy.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Castro, J. Justin, 1981- editor.
Garza, James Alex, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Technocratic visions. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022] 082294748X (OCoLC)1280275581
Print version: 082294748X 9780822947486 (OCoLC)1280275581
ISBN 9780822989202 (electronic book)
0822989204 (electronic book)
082294748X
9780822947486