LEADER 03759nam 2200577 450 001 9910790779803321 005 20240102235724.0 010 $a1-4962-0904-4 010 $a0-8032-4943-8 035 $a(OCoLC)862614723 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27614 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1543721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10797405 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL542675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1543721 035 $a(CKB)2550000001159471 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001159471 100 $a20130806h20142014 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe civilizing machine $ea cultural history of Mexican railroads, 1876-1910 /$fMichael Matthews 210 1$aLincoln :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Mexican experience 311 $a0-8032-4380-4 311 $a1-306-11424-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato -- De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom -- Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony -- The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident -- La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press. 330 $a"In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine, Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of General Porfirio Di?az, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, "order and progress." The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMexican experience. 606 $aPopular culture$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRailroads$zMexico$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRailroads$xSocial aspects$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMexico$xHistory$y1867-1910 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aRailroads$xPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aRailroads$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a385.097209034 686 $aHIS025000$2bisacsh 700 $aMatthews$b Michael$f1978-$01491569 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790779803321 996 $aThe civilizing machine$93713430 997 $aUNINA