This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.
This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.
Learning Places is an expression that intends to underline the very nature of technical and scientific knowledge transmission related to the built environment transformation of imperial colonial areas. This volume proposes an approach that emphasises the crucial role of the connection between individual and institutional levels, forming a complex network of Learning Places. By comparing different case studies in fields of knowledge and transformation of the built environmentmilitary engineering and cartography, among othersthe book establishes a comparative frame of the political-scientific enterprise of empires, across geographies and times.
Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires is of key interest to researchers, teachers and students of a variety of disciplines, including the history of science and technology, architecture and urban studies, and colonial and post-colonial studies.
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 (18781910): 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 Acaraś hinterlands: engineers and practitioners trying to know
Cearį, Brazil (17971861)
16. The idea of a new world in the General
Captaincy of the Azores: the territory and its protagonists
Alice Santiago Faria is an auxiliary researcher at the CHAM Centre for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Universidade dos Aēores, Portugal. She was the PI of the research project "TechNetEMPIRE - Technoscientific Networks in the Construction of the Built Environment in the Portuguese Empire (16471871)" with Renata Araujo (Co-PI). Her research focuses on colonial public works across the Portuguese Empire during the long nineteenth century.
Renata Malcher de Araujo is a professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of the Algarve and an integrated researcher at CHAM Centre for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade dos Aēores, Portugal. She conducts research mainly in the areas of the history of urbanism, especially in the scope of Portuguese expansion, history of cartography, and heritage studies.
Margarida Tavares da Conceiēćo is an assistant professor at the Department of Art History, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, and a full researcher at the Institute of Art History / IN2PAST Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, in the same university. Her research is focused on urban and fortification history, and architectural knowledge transmission in the early modern period.
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