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
Arupjyoti Saikia
Ariffin, Dayana
Finn, Megan
R. Grapes
Gaetano Calabrese
Concepts
Earthquakes
Colonialism
Disasters; catastrophes
Spain, colonies
Seismology
Meteorology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
Philippines
Cuba
Spain
Japan
Palau
Calabria
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Manila Observatory (Philippines)
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