Engineering has long deserved a place of honor among the liberal professions essential to build the modern state. The history of large infrastructural works goes hand in hand with some of the most enduring contributions to our current understanding of the enmeshed relationships between nature, technology, society, and culture at large. Only recently, however, has attention been paid to how infrastructures and technoscientific projects have shaped the landscapes, lives, and politics of regions outside Western industrialized countries, particularly in Latin America. These works, mostly published in the last decade, demonstrate what Elizabeth Reddy argues at the start of her monograph on the technologies of early earthquake warning in Mexico: neglecting these places and the rich literature being produced there results in “a tremendous loss for those of us who seek to better understand technologies and how they are developed, redeveloped, adapted, and used” (p. 3). For general historians, I should...
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November 01 2024
¡Alerta! Engineering on Shaky Ground
¡Alerta! Engineering on Shaky Ground
. By Elizabeth Reddy. Engineering Studies
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
, 2023
. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. xii
, 214
pp. Paper, $40.00.Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 759–760.
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Edna Suárez Díaz; ¡Alerta! Engineering on Shaky Ground. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2024; 104 (4): 759–760. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11384994
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