Science and the state : from the scientific revolution to World War II /
Modern science and the modern state emerged at much the same time in early modern Europe and both institutions were consolidated further in the centuries which followed, particularly so in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the imperatives of industrialisation and war. Was this c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | New approaches to the history of science and medicine.
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| Summary: | Modern science and the modern state emerged at much the same time in early modern Europe and both institutions were consolidated further in the centuries which followed, particularly so in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the imperatives of industrialisation and war. Was this coincidence? It is the argument of this book that it was not, that the growth of science and the state were linked and both drew on each other in establishing and augmenting their sway. To convey an overview of the major themes which such a survey of the relations between science and the state entails we begin by asking what, in broad, were some of the major ways in which the state and science interacted? |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107155671 1107155673 9781316609385 1316609383 |