APPENDIX 1. Prominent Public Figures Who Promoted Technical Education, 1821-1864

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Tables and Maps xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Conventions Followed xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One Colombia: Its Geography and Society
8. Chapter 1 Opportunities and Incentives 21
9. Part Two Moral and Industrial Education
10. Chapter 2 Learning to Work 49
11. Part Three Academic Science for the Upper Class: Bourbons and Neo-Bourbons
12. Chapter 3 The Enlightenment in New Granada 85
13. Chapter 3 The Enlightenment in New Granada 99
14. Chapter 5 The Decline of Neo-Bourbonism 124
15. Part Four The Origins of a Colombian Engineering Profession
16. Chapter 6 Study Abroad 147
17. Chapter 7 The Colegio Militar 166
18. Chapter 8 Stumbling Progress, 1863-1903 185
19. Chapter 9 A Place for Engineers 209
20. Epilogue 227
21. Appendixes
22. APPENDIX 1. Prominent Public Figures Who Promoted Technical Education, 1821-1864 244
23. APPENDIX 2. Students in the Care of Gen. Pedro Alcántara Herrán, 1848-1863 252
24. APPENDIX 3. Careers of Prominent Alumni of Colegio Militar, 1848-1854 (for whom data are available) 264
25. Notes 271
26. Glossary 327
27. Bibliographic Note 331
28. Bibliography 333
29. Index 363