Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires

Introduction Part 1: On learning and teaching 1. "Militarising" dominions and "globalising" knowledge: architects and military engineers in the Mediterranean during the early modern age 2. "Servants of Mathesis": early modern education in fortification and the authority of mathematics in the Dutch language 3. Classes or lessons, and the learning of architecture before the Portuguese Restoration (1640) 4. Learning places: building expertise in the early modern Portuguese Empire 5. Scenes from the war to come: the development of mock sieges in French military schools from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries 6. The professional training in the fields of architecture and engineering in nineteenth-century Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro: institutions, temporalities, and exchanges 7. The Portuguese higher studies of colonial agriculture (1878-1910): agronomy, empire, and colonial rule 8. On building empires: colonial companies, spatial planning, and the circulation of knowledge Part 2: On theories and practices 9. Engineers for the empire: from the academies of mathematics in Spain to the practice of fortification in Cartagena de Indias from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century 10. Academic vs colonial fortification: cultural dialogue on building techniques in the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines 11. From theory to practice: military engineering in the Gulf of Mexico during the second half of the eighteenth century 12. (In)formal learning: military engineer education in African territories of the Portuguese empire 13. Between readings, writings, and the building site: Diogo da Silveira Veloso, an eighteenth-century Portuguese engineer in northeastern Brazil 14. Drawing the territory: cartographic expeditions as learning places, the case of southern Brazil in the middle of the eighteenth century 15. Cartography and mining in Acarau hinterlands: engineers and practitioners trying to know Ceara, Brazil (1797-1861) 16. The idea of a "new world" in the General Captaincy of the Azores: the territory and its protagonists