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Автор: Matthews, Michael,
Название: The civilizing machine :
Перевод названия: Майкл Матьюс: Машина цивилизаций
ISBN: 9780803243804
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Региональные исследования

Железнодорожное строительство, техника, перевозки и профессии

ISBN-10: 0803243804
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 340
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 01.01.2014
Серия: The mexican experience
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 25 illustrations. 2 tables
Размер: 226 x 152 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
Подзаголовок: A cultural history of mexican railroads, 1876-1910
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:

In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country’s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation’s status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico’s railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination.

In The Civilizing Machine Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people’s understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio D?az, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad’s development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, “order and progress.” The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Discourse of Development: The Railway Debate of the Early Porfiriato
Chapter 2. De Viaje: Elite Views of Modernity and the Railway Boom
Chapter 3. Festivals of Progress: The Railway Ceremony
Chapter 4

The civilizing machine :, Matthews, Michael,