Cyclones and Earthquakes
The Jesuits, Prediction, Trade, and Spanish Dominion in Cuba and Philippines, 1850-1898
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
- Date of Publication 31 December 2017
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9789715507646
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages374 pages
- Size 226x149x22 mm
- Weight 582 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Gallery of black & white archival illustrations 0
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Short description:
Provides an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention - cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction - have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.
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How is scientific knowledge produced in a colonial context? Furthermore, how is it possible that two colonies such as Cuba and the Philippines could have among the most notable scientific achievements in the history of nineteenth-century Spain? Finally, what happens when these achievements were driven by a religious order like the Society of Jesus? Why and what kinds of interests were at stake? This book is an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention—cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction—have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.
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