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Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Political Engineering and the "Redemption of Spain"

2. The Concrete Dodecahedron: The Political Economy of Coal, Design, and the Landscape

3. Laboratories and Churches: Science, Industry, and National Catholicism

4. One Grain, One Nation: Rice Genetics and the Corporate State (1936

1952)

5. The Total Systematization of a River and the Limitations of "Totalitarianism": Industry, Agriculture, and Physical Models in the Pyrenees

6. Scientific Standards as Tools for Political Transformation: Prestressed Concrete, European Integration, and the Regulatory State

7. Conclusion.

Engineering > Spain > History > 20th century.

Engineering and state > Spain > History > 20th century.

Engineering > Political aspects > Spain.

Civil engineering > Spain > History > 20th century.

Agricultural engineering > Spain > History > 20th century.

Reinforced concrete > Spain > History > 20th century.

Rice > Breeding > Spain > History > 20th century.

Water resources development > Spain > History > 20th century.

Spain > Politics and government > 1939-1975.