TY - BOOK AU - Kahle,Trish TI - Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (Diana J. Montaño, 2021) PY - 2022///. N1 - 79 N2 - Diana J. Montaño’s Electrifying Mexico is a cultural and social history of electrification in the Mexican capital between 1880 and 1960. She adopts a user-centered approach to place ordinary people at the center of the story of electrification, showing how technological diffusion was a contested and multi-directional process. Incorporating histories of technology, gender, race, class, law, and labor — as well as a creative and varied source base — Montaño reconstructs electrification from the bottom-up and offers several methodological contributions for energy historians to build on UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-of-energy-history-2022-1-page-1e?lang=en ER -