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Author: Graeme Gleaves Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 144562219X Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 128
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The arrival of electric traction transformed London's fledgling underground system from a limited number of sub-surface lines into the network of deep-level tunnels we know today.
Author: Graeme Gleaves Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 144562219X Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
The arrival of electric traction transformed London's fledgling underground system from a limited number of sub-surface lines into the network of deep-level tunnels we know today.
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress Languages : en Pages : 1548
Author: Diana Montaño Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477323457 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
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2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) 2022 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2022 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History, Urban History Association (Co-winner) 2023 Honorable Mention, Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section 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. 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 scientifically enlightened “empire of peace.” She is especially concerned with electrification at the social level. Ordinary electricity users were also agents and sites of change. Montaño documents inventions and adaptations that served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space, body and self, the national and the foreign. Electricity also colored issues of gender, race, and class in ways specific to Mexico. Complicating historical discourses in which Latin Americans merely use technologies developed elsewhere, Electrifying Mexico emphasizes a particular national culture of scientific progress and its contributions to a uniquely Mexican modernist political subjectivity.
Author: Massimo Moraglio Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317800664 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 261
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Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and new methodologies. Following the debates on the role of users in shaping transport technology, new mobility research includes debates from sociology, planning, economy, geography, history, and anthropology. This edited volume examines how users, policy-makers, and industrial managers have organized and continue to organize mobility, with a particularly attention to Europe, North America, and Asia. Taking a long-term and comparative perspective, the volume brings together thirteen chapters from the fields of urban studies, history, cultural studies, and geography. Covering a variety of countries and regions, these chapters investigate how various actors have shaped transport systems, creating models of mobility that differ along a number of dimensions, including public vs. private ownership and operation as well as individual vs. collective forms of transportation. The contributions also examine the extent to which initial models have created path dependencies in terms of technology, physical infrastructure, urban development, and cultural and behavioral preferences that limit subsequent choices.
Author: Edward Bernard Meyer Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781358422942 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Author: Graeme Gleaves
Author: Graeme Gleaves
Author: Wilfred Yorke
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Author: Diana Montaño
Author: Massimo Moraglio
Author: Edward Bernard 1882 Meyer
Author: Edward Bernard Meyer
Author: United States. Rural Electrification Administration
Author: Edward Bernard 1882 Meyer
Author: Orville W. Zastrow