Edward Beatty
Biographic Data
| ID | 698746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Beatty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Beatty |
| SIGNATURE | BEATTY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity
Engineers & Corporate Management, ca 1870–1930: The Invisible Hand Redux
Who managed large corporations during the first half century of their emergence? How did modernizing firms navigate periods of rapid technological change such as those that swept the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What role did engineers play in the management of large corporations? This paper draws on an original database of tens of thousands of mining and metallurgical engineers who graduated from universitie…
Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950
As we face the existential threat of climate change and scramble to open pathways to a more sustainable energy future, many scholars have turned to examine previous energy regimes in order to better understand how we got here, and where we might go next.Germán Vergara's superb new book, Fueling Mexico, offers a detailed, vivid, and incisive portrait of energy in Mexican history. He tells the story of Mexico's transition to fossil fuel dependency …
Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives ed. by Rani T. Alexander
Reviewed by: Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives ed. by Rani T. Alexander Edward (Ted) Beatty (bio) Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives Edited by Rani T. Alexander. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 304. How should we understand and interpret the history of technology in post-conquest, colonial, and postcoloni…
Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies—the sewing machine, a glass bottle–blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refinin…
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900, by Timo H. Schaefer
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Mikael D. Wolfe
Reviewed by: Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexicoby Mikael D. Wolfe Edward Beatty (bio) Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico. By Mikael D. Wolfe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 336. Paperback $29.95. Mikael Wolfe's superb first book gives us a powerful history of twentieth-century, post-revolutionary Mexico through…
A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City by Matthew Vitz
Reviewed by: A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City by Matthew Vitz Edward Beatty (bio) A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City. By Matthew Vitz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 338. Paperback $27.95. Matthew Vitz begins his superb new history of Mexico City by contrasting apocalyptic visions of an urban leviathan overwhelmed by impending environmental collapse, ca. 195…
Technology in Latin America’s Past and Present: New Evidence from the Patent Records
In spite of important recent work on the history of technology and the dynamics of technological change in Latin America, the literature in this field remains relatively undeveloped. In part, this is due to a relative scarcity of available sources for conducting research. This research note argues that national patent records are an important and untapped source for a wide range of studies on technology and technological change. The research note…
City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910
City on Fire begins with a fabulous first few pages that evoke urban fire in all its aspects: critical, useful, nearly omnipresent, and too often brutally destructive. Few scholarly histories sustain the evocative prose with which Anna Rose Alexander begins this book—and this one cannot—but it also does not disappoint. From beginning to end this is a beautifully written and well-crafted book, an important new history of fire in Mexico City during…
Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
In the late nineteenth century, Mexicans quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many other goods and services across the economy. New technologies underlay rapid economic growth as well as cultural change and social dislocation. This book traces general trends across the Mexican economy and offers new case studies of the canonical technologies of the first indust…
Vera S. Candiani, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
Records of Social and Economic History: New Series, Vol. 53: The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad
The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people …
Sabine MacCormack (1941-2012)
Born into a war-torn Germany, Sabine MacCormack had a peripatetic childhood, and she only learned to read and write when she was eight, finally settling at her grandmother’s home in Bavaria, where she attended a Catholic school. She completed her education in a gymnasium, which gave her a remarkable grounding in Latin and Greek that she would draw upon for the rest of her career. She studied classics and history at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, d…
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill (review)
Reviewed by: Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill Edward Beatty (bio) Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. By Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+331. $84.95/$23.95. The discovery of steroid hormones fundamentally altered both medicine and sexual behavior in the mid-twentieth century. Mexico found itself at the ce…
Bottles for Beer: The Business of Technological Innovation in Mexico, 1890–1920
Successful technological change in countries outside the northern Atlantic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on entrepreneurial skills, not inventive expertise. In this examination of the Owens automatic glass-bottle-blowing machine in Mexico between 1905 and 1912, innovation is seen to have occurred within a broad context of incipient social and economic modernization. Although the obstacles encountered by technology i…
Penuria sin fin: Historia de los impuestos en México, siglos XVIII-XX
Some books have covers that live up to the high quality of the contents, and this is one. I won’t describe it here — buy the book and enjoy both cover and content — but suffice to say that this particular image of a Mexican eagle and bloodletting from the body politic offers a compelling metaphor for Mexico’s fiscal history. This collection of essays is more than simply a “history of taxes in Mexico.” It examines what Enrique Krauze and others ha…
Las finanzas públicas en los siglos XVIII-XIX
This volume of essays is one in a series of ten economic histories of Mexico recently published through the collaborative efforts of the Instituto Mora, El Colegio de Michoacán, El Colegio de México, and UNAM’s Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Most of the chapters in this collection (as in most of the other volumes) have been previously published—in this case, mostly in the 1980s and mostly in Mexico. Although many (perhaps most) historia…
The Impact of Foreign Trade on the Mexican Economy: Terms of Trade and the Rise of Industry 1880-1923
This article uses both new and published data on Mexico's foreign trade to measure terms of trade and to investigate the relationship between trade and the early growth of domestic industry. This analysis yields five conclusions: (1) Mexican terms of trade declined, largely due to the dramatic fall in the price of silver; (2) the growing diversity of Mexican exports significantly cushioned the short-term impact of silver depreciation; (3) declini…
The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Impact of Foreign Trade on the Mexican Economy: Terms of Trade and the Rise of Industry 1880-1923
This article uses both new and published data on Mexico's foreign trade to measure terms of trade and to investigate the relationship between trade and the early growth of domestic industry. This analysis yields five conclusions: (1) Mexican terms of trade declined, largely due to the dramatic fall in the price of silver; (2) the growing diversity of Mexican exports significantly cushioned the short-term impact of silver depreciation; (3) declini…
Bottles for Beer: The Business of Technological Innovation in Mexico, 1890–1920
Successful technological change in countries outside the northern Atlantic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on entrepreneurial skills, not inventive expertise. In this examination of the Owens automatic glass-bottle-blowing machine in Mexico between 1905 and 1912, innovation is seen to have occurred within a broad context of incipient social and economic modernization. Although the obstacles encountered by technology i…
The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Impact of Foreign Trade on the Mexican Economy: Terms of Trade and the Rise of Industry 1880-1923
This article uses both new and published data on Mexico's foreign trade to measure terms of trade and to investigate the relationship between trade and the early growth of domestic industry. This analysis yields five conclusions: (1) Mexican terms of trade declined, largely due to the dramatic fall in the price of silver; (2) the growing diversity of Mexican exports significantly cushioned the short-term impact of silver depreciation; (3) declini…
Las finanzas públicas en los siglos XVIII-XIX
This volume of essays is one in a series of ten economic histories of Mexico recently published through the collaborative efforts of the Instituto Mora, El Colegio de Michoacán, El Colegio de México, and UNAM’s Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Most of the chapters in this collection (as in most of the other volumes) have been previously published—in this case, mostly in the 1980s and mostly in Mexico. Although many (perhaps most) historia…
Penuria sin fin: Historia de los impuestos en México, siglos XVIII-XX
Some books have covers that live up to the high quality of the contents, and this is one. I won’t describe it here — buy the book and enjoy both cover and content — but suffice to say that this particular image of a Mexican eagle and bloodletting from the body politic offers a compelling metaphor for Mexico’s fiscal history. This collection of essays is more than simply a “history of taxes in Mexico.” It examines what Enrique Krauze and others ha…
Bottles for Beer: The Business of Technological Innovation in Mexico, 1890–1920
Successful technological change in countries outside the northern Atlantic during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on entrepreneurial skills, not inventive expertise. In this examination of the Owens automatic glass-bottle-blowing machine in Mexico between 1905 and 1912, innovation is seen to have occurred within a broad context of incipient social and economic modernization. Although the obstacles encountered by technology i…
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill (review)
Reviewed by: Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill Edward Beatty (bio) Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. By Gabriela Soto Laveaga. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+331. $84.95/$23.95. The discovery of steroid hormones fundamentally altered both medicine and sexual behavior in the mid-twentieth century. Mexico found itself at the ce…
Records of Social and Economic History: New Series, Vol. 53: The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad
The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people …
Sabine MacCormack (1941-2012)
Born into a war-torn Germany, Sabine MacCormack had a peripatetic childhood, and she only learned to read and write when she was eight, finally settling at her grandmother’s home in Bavaria, where she attended a Catholic school. She completed her education in a gymnasium, which gave her a remarkable grounding in Latin and Greek that she would draw upon for the rest of her career. She studied classics and history at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, d…
Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
In the late nineteenth century, Mexicans quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many other goods and services across the economy. New technologies underlay rapid economic growth as well as cultural change and social dislocation. This book traces general trends across the Mexican economy and offers new case studies of the canonical technologies of the first indust…
Vera S. Candiani, Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
Technology in Latin America’s Past and Present: New Evidence from the Patent Records
In spite of important recent work on the history of technology and the dynamics of technological change in Latin America, the literature in this field remains relatively undeveloped. In part, this is due to a relative scarcity of available sources for conducting research. This research note argues that national patent records are an important and untapped source for a wide range of studies on technology and technological change. The research note…
City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910
City on Fire begins with a fabulous first few pages that evoke urban fire in all its aspects: critical, useful, nearly omnipresent, and too often brutally destructive. Few scholarly histories sustain the evocative prose with which Anna Rose Alexander begins this book—and this one cannot—but it also does not disappoint. From beginning to end this is a beautifully written and well-crafted book, an important new history of fire in Mexico City during…
Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies—the sewing machine, a glass bottle–blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refinin…
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900, by Timo H. Schaefer
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Mikael D. Wolfe
Reviewed by: Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexicoby Mikael D. Wolfe Edward Beatty (bio) Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico. By Mikael D. Wolfe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 336. Paperback $29.95. Mikael Wolfe's superb first book gives us a powerful history of twentieth-century, post-revolutionary Mexico through…
A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City by Matthew Vitz
Reviewed by: A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City by Matthew Vitz Edward Beatty (bio) A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City. By Matthew Vitz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 338. Paperback $27.95. Matthew Vitz begins his superb new history of Mexico City by contrasting apocalyptic visions of an urban leviathan overwhelmed by impending environmental collapse, ca. 195…
Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives ed. by Rani T. Alexander
Reviewed by: Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives ed. by Rani T. Alexander Edward (Ted) Beatty (bio) Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives Edited by Rani T. Alexander. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 304. How should we understand and interpret the history of technology in post-conquest, colonial, and postcoloni…
Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950
As we face the existential threat of climate change and scramble to open pathways to a more sustainable energy future, many scholars have turned to examine previous energy regimes in order to better understand how we got here, and where we might go next.Germán Vergara's superb new book, Fueling Mexico, offers a detailed, vivid, and incisive portrait of energy in Mexican history. He tells the story of Mexico's transition to fossil fuel dependency …
Engineers & Corporate Management, ca 1870–1930: The Invisible Hand Redux
Who managed large corporations during the first half century of their emergence? How did modernizing firms navigate periods of rapid technological change such as those that swept the U.S. economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What role did engineers play in the management of large corporations? This paper draws on an original database of tens of thousands of mining and metallurgical engineers who graduated from universitie…
Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity
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