|9780822968238|Latin American Medical Researchers of the Early Twentieth Century|Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru and their counterparts at US research centers and philanthropies shaped the life sciences in the region. Despite assumptions that countries in the Global South produced science of doubtful quality, and despite institutional and economic obstacles, Latin American physiologists took part in networks of scientific power that dictated distinctive styles of laboratory research and strategies to validate experimental medical science. But physiology lost its comprehensive appeal and fragmented into multiple disciplines following World War II. The Cold-War dictated new…

|9780822949145|Latin American Medical Researchers of the Early Twentieth Century|Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru and their counterparts at US research centers and philanthropies shaped the life sciences in the region. Despite assumptions that countries in the Global South produced science of doubtful quality, and despite institutional and economic obstacles, Latin American physiologists took part in networks of scientific power that dictated distinctive styles of laboratory research and strategies to validate experimental medical science. But physiology lost its comprehensive appeal and fragmented into multiple disciplines following World War II. The Cold-War dictated new…

|9780822947639|Oil’s Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela| Honorable Mention, 2025 Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award from the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association | Winner, 2024 Barrington Moore Book Award from the Section on Comparative Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association | Co-winner, 2024 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association | Honorable Mention, 2024 Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award from the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association Social polarization has roiled neoliberal political establishments but has rarely culminated in electoral victories for anticapitalist…

|9780822947608|Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960|The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was also an effective symbol for promoting the aspirations of the new elite who attained prominence during the war and who fixated on technology as a measure of national progress. The politicians, industrialists, and cultural influencers in the media who made up this group molded the aviator into an avatar of modern citizenship. The figure of the pilot as a model citizen proved an adept vessel for disseminating the values…

|9780822966999|History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital| Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico’s unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country’s architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial,…