Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa

Maria Paula Pires dos Santos Diogo

Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa

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Abstract

This chapter aims at showing how engineers were pivotal to the occupation of the Portuguese colonies in Africa during the 19th century. After the Berlin Conference the so-called technologies of the land (railways, roads, harbors) were one of the main tools for securing and conquering the wealthy African territories. Portugal, a peripheral European country, had to develop its own strategy in order keep its colonies against the voracious appetite of Britain, France, and Germany.

Original language	Unknown
Title of host publication	Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção/ Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action/ The quest for a professional dentity: engineers between trianing and action
Editors	A. Cardoso de Matos, M.P. Diogo, I. Gouzévith, A. Grelon
Place of Publication	Lisboa
Publisher	Colibri and École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Pages	471-482
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	978-972-772-879-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

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Diogo, M. P. P. D. S. (2009). Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa. In A. Cardoso de Matos, M. P. Diogo, I. Gouzévith, & A. Grelon (Eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção/ Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action/ The quest for a professional dentity: engineers between trianing and action (1st ed., pp. 471-482). Colibri and École des Hautes Études en Sciences.

Diogo, Maria Paula Pires dos Santos. / Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa. Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção/ Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action/ The quest for a professional dentity: engineers between trianing and action. editor / A. Cardoso de Matos ; M.P. Diogo ; I. Gouzévith ; A. Grelon. 1st. ed. Lisboa : Colibri and École des Hautes Études en Sciences, 2009. pp. 471-482

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Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção/ Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action/ The quest for a professional dentity: engineers between trianing and action. ed. / A. Cardoso de Matos; M.P. Diogo; I. Gouzévith; A. Grelon. 1st. ed. Lisboa : Colibri and École des Hautes Études en Sciences, 2009. p. 471-482.

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Diogo MPPDS. Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa. In Cardoso de Matos A, Diogo MP, Gouzévith I, Grelon A, editors, Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção/ Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action/ The quest for a professional dentity: engineers between trianing and action. 1st ed. Lisboa: Colibri and École des Hautes Études en Sciences. 2009. p. 471-482