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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to overcome an outdated centre-periphery model.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.
Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently
labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no
alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of
London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions
this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona,
Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb
pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their
pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health,
they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned
from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a
given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied
urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and
multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this
transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban
and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the
universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to
overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as
outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal
to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban
historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians
of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational
connections.
Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently
labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no
alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of
London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions
this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona,
Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb
pursued their own agendas of modernization. In order to solve their
pressing problems with respect to urban planning and public health,
they searched for best practices abroad. The solutions they gleaned
from other cities were eclectic to fit the specific needs of a
given urban space and were thus often innovative. This applied
urban knowledge was generated through interurban networks and
multi-directional exchanges. Yet in the period around 1900, this
transnational municipalism often clashed with the forging of urban
and national identities, highlighting the tensions between the
universal and the local. This interurban perspective helps to
overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as
outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume will appeal
to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban
historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians
of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational
connections.
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.
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.
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.
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