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Science and Ideology

Mark Walker
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Common Language
Communicat Ions
comparative scientific systems
cybernetics development
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Evo Lution
Gene Ral
history of science
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Information Theory
IOS
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Nati Onal
National Socialist Past
NS Regime
Nucl Ear
Opp Enheimer
Oppenhe Imer
Pol Itics
political regimes impact
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Rocket Development
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scientific policy analysis
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State Secretary
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totalitarian science studies
twentieth century science politics
West Germany
Wiener's Work

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415271226
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Sep 2002
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they may or may not have been directly determined by them.
Science and Ideology brings together a number of comparative case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state. Cybernetics in the USA is compared to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied science policy in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that in Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, yet cover a wide range of countries and ideologies. The collection provides a unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century.
About Mark Walker
Mark Walker teaches modern European history and the history of science and technology at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He has published several books and articles on science under National Socialism, including German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–1949 (1989) and Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atom Bomb (1995).

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