Tiago Saraiva and Marta Macedo (eds.). Capital Científica. Práticas da Ciência em Lisboa e a História Contemporânea de Portugal

Abstract

The investigations in the book Capital Científica. Práticas da Ciência em Lisboa e a História Contemporânea de Portugal (Scientific Capital. Practices of Science in Lisbon and the Contemporary History of Portugal) are the result of two projects conducted over the past few years at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais and the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia on “The Spaces of Portuguese Technoscience (1837- 1947)” and “The Making of a Technoscientific Capital (1870-1940).” However, the book can also be read as a synthesis of the advances in the history of science and technology in Portugal during the last decades. This field of research has been particularly active, and the book demonstrates the maturity and the great coherence of historiographies in which the editors have occupied a central position, either in connection with urban history (Tiago Saraiva), or the history of the construction of the national state (Marta Macedo).