Electrifying Mexico av D Montao

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<DIV><P><B>2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)<BR/> 2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)</B><BR/><B>2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner)<BR/> 2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section </B></P><P> Many visitors to Mexico City’s 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electronic printers, and a banquet of light. It was both technological spectacle and political messaging, for speeches at the event lauded President Porfirio Díaz and bound such progress to his vision of a modern order. </P><P> Diana J. Montaño explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scienti