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Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.
The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which exceeded the relative economic and political clout of the country at the time, reflects the combination of domestic and foreign interests. Each contribution inserts the Spanish case within the international development of nuclear energy, but also shows how the Spanish nuclear program came about, how it was financed, and who the main architects and beneficiaries at the industrial, financial, commercial and banking levels were; all without losing sight of the energy policy aspects such as energy mix and energy security. The volume provides useful analysis and sources for a variety of core fields across the social sciences including economic history of post-war Europe, industrial and energy policy, international relations and history of technology.
La física en la dictadura. Físicos, cultura y poder en España 1939-1975
Este libro trata sobre el problema histórico de ubicar la física en el franquismo. Física en la dictadura, y no durante la dictadura, porque nos interesan más las relaciones entre el laboratorio, el aula, el despacho oficial, la redacción o la central nuclear —lugares de producción de bienes y conocimiento, espacios tanto públicos como privados de autoridad, comunicación o enseñanza—, que las cronologías del progreso o el retraso. Física en relación con la cultura y el poder porque queremos indagar en las formas de articulación entre una disciplina científica y un régimen político totalitario. El volumen reúne trabajos de una veintena de historiadores, presentados durant...
The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain
This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936–1939), and oppressed by Franco’s dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin’s voyages through time and across geographies – professional, political and social – were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillin’s lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s – through the dictatorship to democratic transition – explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.
Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959
This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific na...
Cultura científica y cultura tecnológica
El IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología se celebró en la Universidad de Salamanca entre los días 3 y 7 de julio de 2017 y estuvo organizado por el Instituto de Estudios de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. El germen de estos congresos fue la «Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofía» que precisamente ese año concluyó con la publicación del último volumen de los proyectados. En su origen destacan los nombres de dos filósofos claves que han sido especialmente relevantes en el Congreso: Miguel Ángel Quintanilla, en honor del que se eligió tanto la sede como la temática y León Olivé, que falleció pocos meses antes. Desde el Congreso se les rindió ho...
Traspasar fronteras
El interés recíproco de España y Alemania por la literatura, la historia o la cultura del otro país tiene una larga tradición, tal y como ponen de manifiesto numerosas publicaciones en dichos ámbitos. Las bases históricas de esta relación científica hispano-alemana se presentan ahora por primera vez en toda su dimensión en este catálogo de la exposición organizada por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), en cooperación con el Deutcher Akademischer Dienst (DAAD), donde se ofrece una panorámica del desarrollo de la cooperación científica entre los dos países, que conmemora el centenario de la fundación en el año 1919 de las primeras instituciones, la Residencia de Estudiantes, el Centro de Estudios Históricos así como el Instituto de Ciencias Físico-Naturales y las relaciones de Alemania con estos centros.
Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era
This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how 'Jewishness' has played a crucial role in Spanish political, social, and cultural developments in the modern era, exploring the effects of the multiple material and symbolic absences of Jews and Judaism from modern Spanish society. The book considers the haunting presence that this absence has entailed. Contributors analyze the different and contradictory ways in which Spain as a nation has tried to come to terms with its Jewish memory and with Jews from the nineteenth century to the present: José Amador de los Ríos’ efforts to incorporate 'Jewishness' into the...
