The Mexican beer industry in general, and advertising in particular, contained both international and national influences. The industry transitioned from significant inputs of capital, technology, and expertise by foreigners during the Porfiriato (1876-1911) to locals carrying out these...

This article focuses on how Mexico's brewers, backed by a collaboration of U.S. and Mexican agronomists and officials who together developed the foundations of the Green Revolution, facilitated the centralization of decision-making over new technologies of production in the malt barley industry...

By examining the horizontal and vertical, international knowledge and technology transfer of specific industrial water-treatment-technologies, this paper reflects on their interaction with beer production. Against the background of the discrepancy between the importance of narratives on...

Decades before beer brewing transformed into a truly global industry toward the end of the nineteenth century, Central Europe - primarily the Habsburg monarchy and the German states - emerged as a sort of laboratory in which networks were forged, new inventions tested, new beer sorts copied, and...

We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources during this period prior to the widespread understanding of the link between water quality and human...

This paper explores how Ontario's craft brewers created new as well as disrupted and changed existing institutions at local and regional levels in the province's beer industry. Using a relational economic geography framework and a markets-as-practices perspective, this study highlights the...