Science, Technology and Medicine in the Making of Lisbon (1840–1940)

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This volumes presents the first urban history of science, technology, and medicine in Lisbon, 1840-1940. It reveals how science, technology and medicine permeated even the most unlikely aspects of the urban landscape in an environment that was simultaneously a port city, scientific capital and imperial metropolis.

Author(s): Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo
Series: Cultural Dynamics of Science, 4
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 487
City: Leiden

Contents
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Note on Contributors
Introduction: Science, Technology and Medicine in the making of Lisbon (1840–1940)
Part 1 The Fabric of the City
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 1 Paving the City and Urban Evolution: Science, Technology, and Craftsmanship under Our Feet
Chapter 2 Trees, Nurseries, and Tree-lined Streets in the Making of Modern Lisbon (1840–1886)
Chapter 3 Working-Class Neighbourhoods in Lisbon. Republican Hygienist Policies, Circulation of Workers and Capital
Chapter 4 Crossing Urban and Transport Expertise to Pave Lisbon’s Future Urban Sprawl (1930s–1940s)
Part 2 Port City and Imperial Metropolis
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 5 Hybrid Features at Lisbon’s New Lazaretto (1860–1908)
Chapter 6 The Customs Laboratory of Lisbon from the 1880s to the 1930s: Chemistry, Trade and Scientific Spaces
Chapter 7 Lisbon after Quarantines: Urban Protection against International Diseases
Chapter 8 The Colonial Garden and the Colonial Agricultural Museum: Education, Research and “Tropical Illusion” in the Imperial Metropolis
Chapter 9 Urbanising the History of “Discoveries:” The 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition and the Making of a New Imperial Capital
Part 3 The Daily Life in the City
Introduction to Part 3
Chapter 10 A Liberal Garden: The Estrela Garden and the Meaning of Being Public
Chapter 11 Allies or Enemies? Dogs in the Streets of Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 12 Intellectuals and the City. Private Matters in the Public Space
Chapter 13 Working-Class Universities: Itinerant Spaces for Science, Technology and Medicine in Republican Lisbon
Chapter 14 A Fascist Coney Island? Salazar’s Dictatorship, Popular Culture and Technological Fun (1933–1943)
Supplement Historical Urban Cartography of Lisbon
Bibliography
Index