Cyclones and Earthquakes

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Cyclones and Earthquakes is written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9715507646 (ISBN 10) and 9789715507646 (ISBN 13).

How is scientific knowledge produced in a colonial context? Furthermore, how is it possible that two colonies such as Cuba and the Philippines could have among the most notable scientific achievements in the history of nineteenth-century Spain? Finally, what happens when these achievements were driven by a religious order like the Society of Jesus? Why and what kinds of interests were at stake? This book is an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention--cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction--have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.