{"product_id":"an-engineered-world-isbn-9780262553353","title":"An Engineered World","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow engineering as a modern profession emerged as a global phenomenon—and why its development and expansion are so critical to our understanding of twentieth-century world history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Engineered World\u003c\/i\u003e examines the dramatic and global expansion of modern, professional engineering between roughly 1870 and 1950. Over these decades, the number of people who called themselves “engineers” (or who were recognized as such by others) expanded from a small and eclectic number of individuals to one of the most numerous, mobile, and influential professional groups of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTens of thousands of university-trained engineers and other professionalized technical experts, a few famous but most anonymous, became critical to the technological, organizational, and political development of global capitalism and socialism in the twentieth century. This was the case in Western Europe and the United States, and it was also true in colonial settings and independent countries around the world, where the institutions of modern engineering were often established in the same era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection edited by Edward Beatty and Israel Solares presents eight case studies of engineers’ work and interactions situated in local, national, or regional places but always intersecting with global influences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: Edward Beatty, Marco Bertilorenzi, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Mark Hendrickson, Doug Jones, Elisabeth Köll, Aparajith Ramnath, Israel G. Solares, Stephen Tuffnell, Mikael WolfeContributors\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: Toward an Engineered World\u003cbr\u003eEdward Beatty \u0026amp; Israel G. Solares\u003cbr\u003e2. “A Man of Many Parts”: Consulting Engineers and the Engineering of Mass Mining Capitalism\u003cbr\u003eStephen Tuffnell\u003cbr\u003e3. “Engineering Scientists” in Mexico, 1876-1911: The Case of Meteorology\u003cbr\u003eMikael Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e4. Cornerstone of That New Imperialism: U.S. Mining Engineers and Labor Management in Southern Africa, 1890-1910\u003cbr\u003eDoug Jones\u003cbr\u003e5. Engineering Mobilities across East Asia: China at the Intersection of Local, Regional, and Global Interactions\u003cbr\u003eElisabeth Köll\u003cbr\u003e6. Engineering Knowledge and the Emergence of China as a Global Leader in Antimony Production\u003cbr\u003eMark Hendrickson\u003cbr\u003e7. French Mining Capitalism Abroad: Mobility of Engineers, Technology Transfer and Investments Flows\u003cbr\u003eMarco Bertilorenzi\u003cbr\u003e8. From Eminent Engineer to Authority on Economic Planning: Sir M. Visvesvaraya in Interwar India\u003cbr\u003eAparajith Ramnath\u003cbr\u003e9. The Globalization of American Engineers: U.S. International Development Policy and the Armour Research Foundation.\u003cbr\u003eAurora Gómez-Galvarriato\u003cbr\u003e10. Conclusions: Mobilities and the Emergence of a Global Profession\u003cbr\u003eEdward Beatty \u0026amp; Israel G. Solares\u003cbr\u003eSelected References\u003cbr\u003eNotesEdward Beatty is Professor of History and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.  He is author of \u003ci\u003eInstitutions and Investment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTechnology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Friedrich Katz Prize from the American Historical Association.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsrael G. Solares is Associate Researcher in the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems, Institute for the Research of Applied Mathematics and Systems. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnderground Leviathan, Corporate Sovereignty, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Mining in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232925626597,"sku":"NP9780262553353","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262553353.jpg?v=1767721504","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-engineered-world-isbn-9780262553353","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}