Article ID: CBB001321193

The Portuguese Polytechnicians of the “Long Nineteenth Century”: Technical Expertise, Military Aspirations, and Political Disenchantment. a Preliminary Study (2013)

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This article focuses on the career paths of students who completed the preparatory course addressed to future military officers and engineers offered by the Lisbon Polytechnic School. We show that, after completing their studies, the Lisbon polytechnicians held positions in the public service and carried out the policies of State modernization launched by the Liberals in the period known as the Regeneration (Regeneração:1851 coup-d'état to 1868). The graduates became in this way part of the Portuguese "technoscientific aristocracy." Yet, despite its key role in preparing this technoscientific bureaucracy, the Lisbon Polytechnic School did not turn into the alma mater of the Portuguese political elite, which continued to be the University of Coimbra. In effect, an overall study of the career paths of former students of the Lisbon Polytechnic points to a relatively low level of political formal engagement. Keywords: Lisbon Polytechnic School, science teaching, engineers, nineteenth century, Portugal.

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Authors & Contributors
Diogo, Maria Paula
Garza, James A.
Kevin Ruane
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Cardoso de Matos, Ana
Castro, Joseph Justin
Concepts
Technology and politics
Technology and government
Science and politics
Engineers
Public policy
Science and government
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Portugal
Great Britain
South Korea
United States
Spain
Greece
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