Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires (eBook, ePUB)

On the Quest of Learning Places
Redaktion: Santiago Faria, Alice; Tavares Da Conceição, Margarida; Malcher de Araujo, Renata

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.

"Learning Places" is an expression that intends to underline the very nature of technical and scientific knowledge transmission related to the built environment transformation of imperial colonial areas. This volume proposes an approach that emphasises the crucial role of the connection between individual and institutional levels, forming a complex network of Learning Places. By comparing different case studies in fields of knowledge and transformation of the built environment-military engineering and cartography, among others-the book establishes a comparative frame of the political-scientific enterprise of empires, across geographies and times.

Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires is of key interest to researchers, teachers, and students of a variety of disciplines, including the history of science and technology, architecture and urban studies, and colonial and post-colonial studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040397831
• Artikelnr.: 74923713

Autorenporträt

Alice Santiago Faria is an auxiliary researcher at the CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Universidade dos Açores, Portugal. She was the PI of the research project "TechNetEMPIRE - Technoscientific Networks in the Construction of the Built Environment in the Portuguese Empire (1647-1871)" with Renata Araujo (Co-PI). Her research focuses on colonial public works across the Portuguese Empire during the long nineteenth century. Renata Malcher de Araujo is a professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of the Algarve and an integrated researcher at CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade dos Açores, Portugal. She conducts research mainly in the areas of the history of urbanism, especially in the scope of Portuguese expansion, history of cartography, and heritage studies. Margarida Tavares da Conceição is an assistant professor at the Department of Art History, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, and a full researcher at the Institute of Art History / IN2PAST - Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, in the same university. Her research is focused on urban and fortification history, and architectural knowledge transmission in the early modern period.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: On learning and teaching 1. "Militarising" dominions
and "globalising" knowledge: architects and military engineers in the
Mediterranean during the early modern age 2. "Servants of Mathesis": early
modern education in fortification and the authority of mathematics in the
Dutch language 3. Classes or lessons, and the learning of architecture
before the Portuguese Restoration (1640) 4. Learning places: building
expertise in the early modern Portuguese Empire 5. Scenes from the war to
come: the development of mock sieges in French military schools from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries 6. The professional training in the
fields of architecture and engineering in nineteenth-century Mexico City
and Rio de Janeiro: institutions, temporalities, and exchanges 7. The
Portuguese higher studies of colonial agriculture (1878-1910): agronomy,
empire, and colonial rule 8. On building empires: colonial companies,
spatial planning, and the circulation of knowledge Part 2: On theories and
practices 9. Engineers for the empire: from the academies of mathematics in
Spain to the practice of fortification in Cartagena de Indias from the
sixteenth to the eighteenth century 10. Academic vs colonial fortification:
cultural dialogue on building techniques in the Spanish Caribbean and the
Philippines 11. From theory to practice: military engineering in the Gulf
of Mexico during the second half of the eighteenth century 12. (In)formal
learning: military engineer education in African territories of the
Portuguese empire 13. Between readings, writings, and the building site:
Diogo da Silveira Veloso, an eighteenth-century Portuguese engineer in
northeastern Brazil 14. Drawing the territory: cartographic expeditions as
learning places, the case of southern Brazil in the middle of the
eighteenth century 15. Cartography and mining in Acaraú hinterlands:
engineers and practitioners trying to know Ceará, Brazil (1797-1861) 16.
The idea of a "new world" in the General Captaincy of the Azores: the
territory and its protagonists