Founders of the Future
eBook - ePub

Founders of the Future

The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Founders of the Future

The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization

About this book

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation's productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain's process of modernization.


 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Note on Translations
  8. Introduction: Reaching out into the Future
  9. 1. The Social Foundry
  10. 2. Economy and Other Matters of State
  11. 3. The Educational Engine
  12. 4. Social Engineering
  13. 5. Technologies of Mass Diffusion
  14. 6. Industrial Footprint
  15. Conclusion: The Unreachable Future
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author