Book ID: CBB859546360

Cyclones and Earthquakes: The Jesuits, Prediction, Trade, and Spanish Dominion in Cuba and the Philippines, 1850-1898 (2018)

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Anduaga Egaña, Aitor (Author)


University of Hawai'i Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 374 pages
Language: English

How is scientific knowledge produced in a colonial context? Furthermore, how is it possible that two colonies such as Cuba and the Philippines could have among the most notable scientific achievements in the history of nineteenth-century Spain? Finally, what happens when these achievements were driven by a religious order like the Society of Jesus? Why and what kinds of interests were at stake? This book is an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention-cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction-have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.

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Authors & Contributors
Anduaga Egaña, Aitor
Bankoff, Greg
Clancey, Gregory K.
Hough, Susan Elizabeth
Kim, Boumsoung
Mizuno, Hiroo
Journals
Engineering Studies
Environment and History
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Book History
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Duke University Press
Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia José Luis Goti
Princeton University Press
The MIT Press
University of North Carolina Press
Viella
Concepts
Earthquakes
Disasters; catastrophes
Seismology
Colonialism
Spain, colonies
Forecasting; prediction
People
Camel, Georg Joseph
Omori, Fusakichi
Petiver, James
Ray, John
Rhijne, Willem ten
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
16th century
Places
Philippines
Spain
Japan
Cuba
India
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Manila Observatory (Philippines)
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