History of Technology Volume 34

Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

• List of Figures1. David Pretel, Ian Inkster and Helge Wendt: Technology in Latin American History: Perspectives, Scales and Comparisons.2. Daniel B. Rood: Centrifugal Capitalism: Struggles over Infrastructure in the Sugar Ports of Nineteenth-century Cuba.3. Diana Montano: Machucados and Salvavidas: Patented Humor in the Technified Spaces of Everyday Life in Mexico City, 1900-1910.4. Christiane Berth: Bringing Communication to the Countryside: Rural Telephony in Latin America, 1900–1985.5. Helge Wendt: Interrelations and Disruptions in the Exchange of Knowledge: Coal, Geology, and Industrialisation in Mexico.6. Josep Simon: Machines and Texts: Writing the History of Educational Technology in Latin America.7. David Pretel: Technology and the Fates of Three Caribbean Commodities.8. Eve Buckley: Brazil’s Mid-twentieth-century ‘Techno-class’ and the Search for Moderate Reform.9. Debora Gerstenberger: Challenging Martial Masculinity: The Intrusion of Digital Computers into the Argentinian Armed Forces in the 1960s.10. Barbara Silva: Transnational Astronomy: Science, Technology and Local Agenda in Cold War Chile. 11. Helen Yaffe: ¬¬The Curious Case of Cuba's Biotech Revolution.12. Saul Guerrero: A Song of Water and Fire: the Brief Coming of Age of the Venezuelan Oil Industry’s R&D Program at the turn of the 20th century.Index

[History of Technology Volume 34] is an excellent contribution to the historiography on Latin America’s history of technology, allowing readers to explore a diverse and broad range of topics ... All the chapters are interdisciplinary and reveal the ambiguous and contradictory role of technology in Latin American history.