Electricity, national identity and regeneration in Spain around 1900.
This article analyses how electricity and electrical technologies were used to generate a whole series of narratives about national regeneration in a context of national (and imperial) decline. It will follow the debates that the advent of the "electrical era" triggered among a group of Spanish engi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 137 - 163 |
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Apr2023
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