A kilo weight.
History of the metric system in Mexico
Hector Vera
Mexico, Books Beetle-French Embassy, \u200b\u200b
2007, 192 pp.
ISBN 970-5775-29 - X
In 1857 the Mexican government adopted the system metric, making the meter, liter and kilogram in the measures that should govern all business and everyday life. This decision marked the beginning of an odyssey of several decades where the state proposed modernizing the country imposing the measurement system used "the most civilized nations of the world."
A kilo weight. History of the metric system in Mexico universe realizes the old measures were replaced by the metric system, the uphill path that scientists and bureaucrats traveled to convince, teach, or forcing people to use those measures, and how Mexico participated in the globalization of the metric system, now used in all the nations of the world except three: Myanmar, Liberia and the United States - where scientists, industry and governments were responsible to make way for the underground while laying down the foundations of global capitalism and international cooperation bodies.
This is a social history that links measures how people weighed, measured, estimated and realized with material life, politics, science and customs of everyday life.
Index
Prologue. "Liters to liter" p. 11
Introduction. Revolutionary system to the international system, by Jean-Claude Hocquet p. 15
I. With the staff that midas ... The old measures in Mexico p. 41
II. Modern rules: The metric system in Mexico p. 79
III. A world, a measure p. 121
Annex p. 167
p. Glossary 177
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