EAN: 9783031010019

SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON GLOBAL ENGINEERING INVE...

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 of collectively
imagining a nation relied on large measure on engineers and their practices. National culture
was not only enacted through poetry  music  and history  but it demanded as well fortresses 
railroads  steam engines  and dams. Portuguese engineers imagined their country in dialogue
with Italian  British  French  German or American realities  many times overlapping such
references. The book exemplifies how history of engineering makes more salient the
transnational dimensions of national history. This is valid beyond the Portuguese case and
draws attention to the potential of history of engineering for reshaping national histories and
their local specificities into global narratives relevant for readers across different
geographies.

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