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The History of Technology in the Americas: The Making and Unmaking of a Hemisphere

The History of Technology in the Americas: The Making and Unmaking of a Hemisphere

Slaton, Amy E.
Mateos, Gisela
Smith, Jesse

Paperback

Central American HistoryGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 2, 2026

ISBN10: 1032009063
ISBN13: 9781032009063
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 2 2026
Pages: 284
Language: English

Through localized case studies and a transnational historiographic project of decentering Europe and the United States, this book explores various approaches to the history of technology in South, Central and North America, as well as the Caribbean.

The three sections, Beyond Agency, Beyond Chronology, and Beyond Borders, project the very wide array of human undertakings that may be illuminated through the rubric of technology. From foodways, computing, and micro-credit banking to tourism, manioc, and arsenic, the authors analyze a vast array of political and cultural meanings customarily hidden in tropes of modernity and development, capturing the role of technology in the conceptual and material construction of the Americas and the Caribbean. The book shows how historical technologies can help articulate episodes of state-making, colonialism, modernization, enslavement, development, Pan- and Inter-Americanism, extractive capitalism, and dictatorial regimes, as well as instances of community-building, democratizing initiatives, and care across the hemisphere.

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