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Urban Histories of Science - Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940 (Hardcover)
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Urban Histories of Science - Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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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to overcome an outdated centre-periphery model.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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