ISBN:
0262323222
,
1306731046
,
0262027178
,
9780262323222
,
9781306731041
,
9780262027175
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Transformations : Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Parallel Title:
Print version Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
DDC:
303.48/3094609045
Keywords:
Civil engineering History 20th century
;
Agricultural engineering History 20th century
;
Reinforced concrete History 20th century
;
Rice Breeding 20th century
;
History
;
Water resources development History 20th century
;
Engineering Political aspects
;
Engineering and state History 20th century
;
Engineering History 20th century
;
Spain Politics and government 1939-1975
;
Ingenieurwissenschaften
;
Franquismus
Abstract:
Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Political Engineering and the "Redemption of Spain" -- 2 The Concrete Dodecahedron: The Political Economy of Coal, Design, and the Landscape -- 3 Laboratories and Churches: Science, Industry, and National Catholicism -- 4 One Grain, One Nation: Rice Genetics and the Corporate State (1936-1952) -- 5 The Total Systematization of a River and the Limitations of "Totalitarianism": Industry, Agriculture, and Physical Models in the Pyrenees
Abstract:
6 Scientific Standards as Tools for Political Transformation: Prestressed Concrete, European Integration, and the Regulatory State -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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