This doctoral thesis analyses the development of public works of infrastructure in Spain between 1834 and 1868, paying a special attention to the Valencian territory. Revises the construction of the main infrastructures of this period as well as the work of its designers, the corps of civil engineers, taking account of the complex political, legal and economic frame of those years. It pays a special attention to the development of irrigation, a kind of infrastructure in which valencians were, at that time, leaders.... [Leer más...]