Inventing a European Nation: Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism

by Maria Paula Diogo and Tiago Saraiva

Book Overview

This book deals with the simultaneous making of Portuguese engineers and the Portuguese nation-state from the mid seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. It argues that the different meanings of being an engineer were directly dependent of projects of nation building and that one cannot understand the history of engineering in Portugal without detailing such projects. Symmetrically, the authors suggest that the very same ability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031010019
• ISBN13: 9783031010019
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"