Mario Peters (German Historical Institute Washington)
Pensar las infraestructuras en Latinoamérica is an important contribution to the study of infrastructure in Latin America, a field that has been flourishing over the last decade or so (M. Lasso, Erased, 2019; S. W. Miller, The Street Is Ours, 2018; F. Schulze, Wissen im Fluss, 2022). The book includes fourteen chapters by historians and scholars from neighboring disciplines. It brings together essays on transportation infrastructure—including railways, roads, and airports—water infrastructure, and urban infrastructure in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This broad approach to infrastructure and the focus on the past and the present in a single volume is indeed something new. In regional terms, the book focuses largely on South America, especially Argentina, while Mexico and Central America figure less prominently […].
Leer más en Technology and Culture, vol. 65, núm. 2: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/926330
Más información sobre el libro: https://www.teseopress.com/pensarlasinfraestructurasenlatinoamerica
