Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415784174 ISBN 13: 9780415784177

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2018

Riassunto

This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities―Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples―situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, the contents of this volume debate why and how we should study the scientific culture of cities, often considered "peripheral" in terms of their production of knowledge. How were scientific practices, debates and innovations intertwined with the highly dynamic urban space around 1900? The authors analyze zoological gardens, research stations, observatories, and international exhibitions, along with hospitals, newspapers, backstreets, and private homes while also stressing the importance of concrete urban spaces for the production and appropriation of knowledge. They uncover the diversity of actors and urban publics ranging from engineers, scientists, architects, and physicians to journalists, tuberculosis patients, and fishermen. Looking at these nine cities around 1900 is like glancing at a prism that produces different and even conflicting notions of modernity. In their totality, the ten case studies help to overcome an outdated centre-periphery model. This volume is, thus, able to address far more intriguing historiographical questions. How do science, technology, and medicine shape the debates about modernity and national identity in the urban space? To what degree do cities and the heterogeneous elements they contain have agency? These urban histories show that science and the city are consistently and continuously co-constructing each other.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Oliver Hochadel is based at the IMF-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona.

Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415784174
• ISBN 13: 9780415784177
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 238
• Redattore: Hochadel Oliver, Nieto-Galan Agustí
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania