Print version: Matthews, Michael, 1978- Civilizing machine : a cultural history of Mexican railroads, 1876-1910. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014 xiii, 321 pages : illustrations Mexican experience ISBN 9780803243804
Includes bibliographical references and index
The discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato -- De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom -- Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony -- The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident -- La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press.