Barcelona: An Urban History Of Science And Modernity, 1888-1929 (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
258 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317176190
Related ISBNs:
9780815366744, 9781315568713, 9781472434197
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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