Barcelona
Subtitle: an urban history of science and modernity, 1888-1929
By: edited by Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan
Series: Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781472434197; 9781472434203; 9781472434210
Subjects: Public spaces; History; Modern Civilization; Science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Preface; title: Barcelona historical timeline; title: Map 1: Barcelona in 1888; title: Introduction / Oliver Hochadel and Agustø Nieto-Galan; title: Control : elite cultures; title: Civic nature : the transformation of the Parc de la Ciutadella into a space for popular science / Oliver Hochadel and Laura Valls; title: Reconstructing the martorell : donors and spaces in the quest for hegemony within the natural history museum / Ferran Aragon and José Pardo-Tomás; title: Laboratory medicine and surgical enterprise in the medical landscape of the eixample district / Alfons Zarzoso and Àlvar Martønez-Vidal; title: Technological fun : the politics and geographies of amusement parks / Jaume Sastre-Juan and Jaume ValentineS-Álvarez; title: Resistance counter-hegemonies; title: La Rosa de Foc : anarchist culture, urban spaces, and the management of scientific knowledge in a divided city / Álvaro Girón Sierra and Jorge Molero-Mesa; title: The city of spirits : spiritism, feminism and the secularization of urban spaces / Mònica Balltondre and Andrea Graus; title: Anatomy of the urban underworld : medical geography of the Barrio Chino / Alfons Zarzoso and José Pardo-Tomás; title: Networks : experts and amateurs; title: The sky above the city : observatories, amateurs and urban astronomy / Antoni Roca-Rosell and Pedro Ruiz-Castell; title: The city in waves : Radio Barcelona and urban everyday life / Carlos Tabernero and Meritxell Guzmán; title: The city of electric light : experts and users at the 1929 international exhibition and beyond / Jordi Ferran and Agustø Nieto-Galan; title: Map 2: Barcelona in 1929; title: Index.