An empire of engineers

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena and Maite Rico

On 30 May 2022, the Rafael del Pino Foundation organised the dialogue "Un imperio de ingenieros: las infraestructuras del imperio español", with the participation of Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and Manuel Lucena, researcher at the Spanish National Research Council and associate professor at the Instituto de Empresa/IE University and ESCP Business School Europe, on the occasion of the publication of his work "Un imperio de ingenieros. A history of the Spanish empire through its infrastructures".

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