| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Mexico -- History
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Technocracy -- History
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Engineering
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Technocracy
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Castro, J. Justin, 1981- editor.
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Garza, James Alex, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822989202 |
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0822989204 |
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