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Álvaro Girón, Oliver Hochadel and Gustavo Vallejo (eds.), Saberes transatlánticos. Barcelona y Buenos Aires: conexiones, confluencias, comparaciones (1850–1940). Madrid: Ediciones Doce Calles, 2017. 274pp. 32 figures. Onomastic Index. €22.80 pbk.
Connections between Catalonia and Argentina in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are being researched at the moment by an increasing number of scholars. There are approaches from the history of art (Montserrat Galí and others), social and political history (Stephen Jacobson) and cultural history (Marcela Lucci). The volume reviewed here aims at merging the history of science and intellectual exchanges with urban history. The chapters that form it accomplish this objective in differing ways. Globally conceived, this is an informative, insightful and readable volume with an especially attractive variety of case-studies: from transnational anarchist networks to anatomical wax displays, medical healers and prostitution laws. Werner's and Zimmermann's histoire croisée, which does not compare different geographical realities, but rather highlights the mutually constitutive impact of developments carried out at different local, regional and global levels, has a notable presence in the book. Thematically, the volume is divided into three parts: the first deals with the influx of Catalan intellectuals in Argentina's capital cities; the second explores more explicit cases of transnational ideological and scientific transfers across the Atlantic; and the third...