Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
World Trade Information Service
Author: Industrial Reference Service
Author: World Trade Information Service
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Railways of South America
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Memoria
Author: Argentina. Ministerio de Justicia e Instrucción PúblicaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
International Commerce
Author: Trade Promotion Series
Author: The Argentine Annual, Including List of English Speaking Residents and Estancieros in Argentina
Author: Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929
Author: Oliver HochadelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new medical specialities, the scientific practices of anarchists and spiritists, the medical geography of the urban underworld, early mass media, domestic electricity and astronomical observatories. They pay attention to the agenda of the bourgeois elites but also to hitherto neglected actors: users of electric technologies and radio amateurs, patients in clinics and dispensaries, collectors and visitors of museums, working class audiences of public talks and female mediums. Science, technology and medicine served to exert social control but also to voice social critique. Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity (1888-1929) shows that the city around 1900 was both a creator and facilitator of knowledge but also a space substantially transformed by the appropriation of this knowledge by its unruly citizens.