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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- The Renaissance monarchy
- Absolutism
- Rivals to absolutism
- Revolution, reaction and reform, 1776-1850
- An expanding state, 1850-1914
- From war to war, 1914-45
- Science, the state and globalisation.