Cyclones and Earthquakes
The Jesuits, Prediction, Trade, and Spanish Dominion in Cuba and Philippines, 1850-1898
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ISBN-13:
9789715507646
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.12.2017
Seiten:
374
Autor:
Aitor Anduaga
Gewicht:
567 g
Format:
226x150x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
How is scientific knowledge produced in a colonial context? Furthermore, how is it possible that two colonies such as Cuba and the Philippines could have among the most notable scientific achievements in the history of nineteenth-century Spain? Finally, what happens when these achievements were driven by a religious order like the Society of Jesus? Why and what kinds of interests were at stake? This book is an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention--cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction--have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.
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