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245 10 a| Electrifying Mexicoh| [electronic resource] :b| technology and the transformation of a modern city /c| Diana J. Montaño.;

250 a| First edition.;

260 a| Austin :b| University of Texas Press,c| [2021];

300 a| xiv, 373 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- Part I. Sensing the beautiful stranger -- Exhibiting the electric city -- Part II. Trapped under the wheels of modernity -- Ladrones de luz: a scripted electricscape, 1901-1918 -- Part III. Becoming electro-domésticas: electrical appliances, maids, and middle-class domesticity, 1930s-1950s -- The people, their electricscape, and the vanguard of labor, 1930s-1960 -- Conclusion. ¡La electricidad es nuestra! (electricity is -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Montaño considers the significance of the electrification of Mexico both as the symbolic construction of a modern nation as well as in the day-to-day lives of citizens. With the electrification of Mexico came new modes of transportation, trolleys, which raised the threat of accidents and related anxieties over modernity in general. It also brought attempts both to regulate electricity and to steal it, which Montaño uses to show the many new ways in which people were employing electricity, such as new electrical appliances in the kitchen. These, in turn, shaped understandings of gender, class, race, and culinary nationalism throughout the first half of the twentieth century"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Electrifying Mexico technology and the transformation of a modern city / Diana J. Montaño.

Author/creator	Montaño, Diana
Format	Electronic
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Description	xiv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Electrification--Mexico. --History. --19th century. Electrification--Mexico. --History. --20th century. Electrification--Social aspects. --Mexico. Electric power consumption--Mexico. --History. Mexico--Social conditions. --20th century.

Contents	Introduction -- Part I. Sensing the beautiful stranger -- Exhibiting the electric city -- Part II. Trapped under the wheels of modernity -- Ladrones de luz: a scripted electricscape, 1901-1918 -- Part III. Becoming electro-domésticas: electrical appliances, maids, and middle-class domesticity, 1930s-1950s -- The people, their electricscape, and the vanguard of labor, 1930s-1960 -- Conclusion. ¡La electricidad es nuestra! (electricity is -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract	"Montaño considers the significance of the electrification of Mexico both as the symbolic construction of a modern nation as well as in the day-to-day lives of citizens. With the electrification of Mexico came new modes of transportation, trolleys, which raised the threat of accidents and related anxieties over modernity in general. It also brought attempts both to regulate electricity and to steal it, which Montaño uses to show the many new ways in which people were employing electricity, such as new electrical appliances in the kitchen. These, in turn, shaped understandings of gender, class, race, and culinary nationalism throughout the first half of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2021008822
ISBN	9781477323458 (cloth)
ISBN	( library ebook )
ISBN	(ebook)

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