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This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation
between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human
control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this
confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The
contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its
role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform
between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse
fields of research, including History of Science and Technology,
Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban
Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil
various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture,
and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the
predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the
Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those
studying environmental and landscape history, the history of
science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental
humanities.
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation
between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human
control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this
confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The
contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its
role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform
between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse
fields of research, including History of Science and Technology,
Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban
Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil
various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture,
and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the
predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the
Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those
studying environmental and landscape history, the history of
science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental
humanities.
Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies
inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European
nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European
influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn
transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they
exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and
biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction
of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the
enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial
programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides.
Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of
Pidgin-knowledge emerged, a hybrid fusion of European and local
knowledge and skills. As observers have rightly pointed out, Europe
played both the role of 'Prometheus unbound' and the 'Sorcerer's
apprentice'.
Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies
inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European
nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European
influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn
transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they
exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and
biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction
of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the
enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial
programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides.
Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of
Pidgin-knowledge emerged, a hybrid fusion of European and local
knowledge and skills. As observers have rightly pointed out, Europe
played both the role of 'Prometheus unbound' and the 'Sorcerer's
apprentice'.
This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide
an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of
science, of the different ways universities dealt with the
institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful
book for understanding the deep changes that universities were
undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is
organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue
duree; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3)
Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline
formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which
includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History,
Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education,
History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school
teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and
humanities, and the general interested public.
This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide
an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of
science, of the different ways universities dealt with the
institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful
book for understanding the deep changes that universities were
undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is
organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue
duree; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3)
Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline
formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which
includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History,
Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education,
History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school
teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and
humanities, and the general interested public.
This book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese
engineers and the Portuguese nation-state from the mid seventeenth
century to the late twentieth century. It argues that the different
meanings of being an engineer were directly dependent of projects
of nation building and that one cannot understand the history of
engineering in Portugal without detailing such projects.
Symmetrically, the authors suggest that the very same ability of
collectively imagining a nation relied on large measure on
engineers and their practices. National culture was not only
enacted through poetry, music, and history, but it demanded as well
fortresses, railroads, steam engines, and dams. Portuguese
engineers imagined their country in dialogue with Italian, British,
French, German or American realities, many times overlapping such
references. The book exemplifies how history of engineering makes
more salient the transnational dimensions of national history. This
is valid beyond the Portuguese case and draws attention to the
potential of history of engineering for reshaping national
histories and their local specificities into global narratives
relevant for readers across different geographies.
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