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Can I read The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 (The Mexican Experience) on EtoBox?
The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 (The Mexican Experience) by Michael Matthews is a hobbies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 (The Mexican Experience) about?
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
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- Author
- Michael Matthews
- Publisher
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803249431
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Transportation
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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