The Ideal of the Practical : : Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite / / Frank Safford.
The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes attempts by members of Colombia’s ninetee...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1976 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Maps
- Preface
- Conventions Followed
- Introduction
- Part One Colombia: Its Geography and Society
- Chapter 1 Opportunities and Incentives
- Part Two Moral and Industrial Education
- Chapter 2 Learning to Work
- Part Three Academic Science for the Upper Class: Bourbons and Neo-Bourbons
- Chapter 3 The Enlightenment in New Granada
- Chapter 3 The Enlightenment in New Granada
- Chapter 5 The Decline of Neo-Bourbonism
- Part Four The Origins of a Colombian Engineering Profession
- Chapter 6 Study Abroad
- Chapter 7 The Colegio Militar
- Chapter 8 Stumbling Progress, 1863-1903
- Chapter 9 A Place for Engineers
- Epilogue
- Appendixes
- APPENDIX 1. Prominent Public Figures Who Promoted Technical Education, 1821-1864
- APPENDIX 2. Students in the Care of Gen. Pedro Alcántara Herrán, 1848-1863
- APPENDIX 3. Careers of Prominent Alumni of Colegio Militar, 1848-1854 (for whom data are available)
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliographic Note
- Bibliography
- Index