Download PDF by Oliver Hochadel,Agustí Nieto-Galan: Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity,

The 4 many years among the 2 common Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 have been formative within the production of contemporary Barcelona. structure and paintings blossomed within the paintings of Antoni Gaudi­ and so forth. while, social unrest tore the town aside. subject matters comparable to paintings nouveau and anarchism have attracted the eye of various historians. but the an important position of technological know-how, know-how and drugs within the cultural make-up of town has been principally overlooked. the 10 articles of this booklet get well the richness and complexity of the medical tradition of end of the century Barcelona. The authors discover a wide diversity of themes: zoological gardens, traditional background museums, leisure parks, new scientific specialities, the medical practices of anarchists and spiritists, the scientific geography of the city underworld, early mass media, household electrical energy and astronomical observatories. They be aware of the time table of the bourgeois elites but in addition to hitherto ignored actors: clients of electrical applied sciences and radio amateurs, sufferers in clinics and dispensaries, creditors and viewers of museums, operating classification audiences of public talks and feminine mediums. technological know-how, expertise and medication served to exert social regulate but additionally to voice social critique. Barcelona: An city historical past of technological know-how and modernity (1888-1929) exhibits that the town round 1900 used to be either a writer and facilitator of information but in addition an area considerably reworked by means of the appropriation of this data through its unruly citizens.