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BL
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875796
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| Main Entry
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Safford, Frank,1935-
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| Title & Author
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The ideal of the practical : : Colombia's struggle to form a technical elite /\ Frank Safford.
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| Publication Statement
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Austin :: University of Texas Press,, ©1976.
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| Series Statement
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Latin American monographs ;; no. 39
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xv, 373 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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029273803X
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: 9780292738034
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-361) and index.
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| Contents
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Part one: Colombia: its geography and society -- Opportunities and incentives -- Part two: Moral and industrial education -- Learning to work -- Part three: Academic science for the upper class: Bourbons and neo-Bourbons -- The enlightenment in New Granada -- The neo-Bourbons, 1821-1845 -- The decline of neo-Bourbonism -- Part four: The origins of a Colombian engineering profession -- Study abroad -- The Colegio Militar -- Stumbling progress, 1863-1903 -- A place for engineers.
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Technical education-- Colombia-- History.
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Enseignement technique-- Colombie-- Histoire.
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81.78 vocational education.
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83.33 economic fluctuations.
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Economia.
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Economic history.
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Education-- Colombia.
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Science-- Colombia.
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Technical education.
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Technology and technological change-- Colombia.
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Colombia, Economic conditions.
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Colombia, Condiciones económicas.
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Colombie, Conditions économiques.
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Colombia.
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| Dewey Classification
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607/.861
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| LC Classification
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T95.S2
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| NLM classification
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81.78bcl
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83.33bcl
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