TY - BOOK ID - 80733660 TI - Technology and the search for progress in modern Mexico PY - 2015 SN - 9780520960558 0520960556 9781336029750 1336029757 0520284909 0520284895 9780520284890 9780520284906 9780520284906 9780520284890 PB - Oakland, Calif. University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Technological innovations KW - Technology transfer KW - Technological transfer KW - Transfer of technology KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Inventions KW - Research, Industrial KW - Technology and international relations KW - Foreign licensing agreements KW - Technological forecasting KW - Technology KW - Breakthroughs, Technological KW - Innovations, Industrial KW - Innovations, Technological KW - Technical innovations KW - Technological breakthroughs KW - Technological change KW - Creative ability in technology KW - Domestication of technology KW - Innovation relay centers KW - History KW - International cooperation KW - E-books KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - Mexico KW - 19th century. KW - automation of technology. KW - cyanide. KW - economic development. KW - economic growth. KW - economic historian. KW - emerging technologies. KW - glass bottle manufacturing. KW - history of technology. KW - history students. KW - history teachers. KW - history. KW - imported technology of 19th century. KW - industrialism. KW - latin america. KW - manufacturing. KW - mexican economy. KW - mexican patents. KW - mexico. KW - second industrial revolution. KW - sewing machines. KW - students and scholars. KW - technologies. KW - technology and imports. KW - technology in mexico. KW - turn of the century technology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80733660 AB - In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies-the sewing machine, a glass bottle-blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining-Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise. ER -