In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals,
Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic. This is the first English-la
This edited volume constitutes the first available comprehensive business history of Latin America available in English. It offers a unique synthesis of the dev
Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the