Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires : On the Quest of Learning Places (Hardcover)

Introduction??Part 1:?On learning and teaching??1. “Militarising” dominions and “globalising” knowledge: architects and military engineers in the Mediterranean during the early modern age??2. “Servants of Mathesis”: early modern education in fortification and the authority of mathematics in the Dutch language??3. Classes or lessons, and the learning of architecture before the Portuguese Restoration (1640)??4. Learning places: building expertise in the early modern Portuguese Empire??5. Scenes from the war to come: the development of mock sieges in French military schools from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries??6. The professional training in the fields of architecture and engineering in nineteenth-century Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro: institutions, temporalities, and exchanges??7. The Portuguese higher studies of colonial agriculture (1878?1910): agronomy, empire, and colonial rule??8. On building empires: colonial companies, spatial planning, and the circulation of knowledge??Part 2:?On theories and practices??9. Engineers for the empire: from the academies of mathematics in Spain to the practice of fortification in Cartagena de Indias from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century??10. Academic vs colonial fortification: cultural dialogue on building techniques in the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines??11. From theory to practice: military engineering in the Gulf of Mexico during the second half of the eighteenth century??12. (In)formal learning: military engineer education in African territories of the Portuguese empire??13. Between readings, writings, and the building site: Diogo da Silveira Veloso, an eighteenth-century Portuguese engineer in northeastern Brazil??14. Drawing the territory: cartographic expeditions as learning places, the case of southern Brazil in the middle of the eighteenth century??15. Cartography and mining in Acarau hinterlands: engineers and practitioners trying to know Ceara, Brazil (1797?1861)??16. The idea of a “new world” in the General Captaincy of the Azores: the territory and its protagonists