The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.
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Weight: 1380g
Dimensions: 163 x 235mm
Publication Date: 09 Apr 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521580816
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Hugh Richard Slotten is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Otago in Dunedin New Zealand. He is the author of Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (2009) and Patronage Practice and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the US Coast Survey (Cambridge 1994). Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Madison where he taught between 1974 and his retirement in 2013. He has written or edited more than two dozen books including The Creationists (1992 2006) Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (2007) and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (2009). David N. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of a number of books including Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987) Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1984) The Geographical Tradition (1992) Putting Science in its Place (2003) Adam's Ancestors (2008) and Dealing with Darwin (2006).