Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation
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A01=Patrick Carroll
Author_Patrick Carroll
british colonial projects
cartography
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colonial ireland
colonialism
engine science
engineering politics
engineering technologies
environmental sustainability
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experimental science
geology
government
governments and governing
imperialism
ireland
material political state
mechanical philosophy
modern science
modern state
nation building
nation state
natural history
policy implementation
political philosophy
postcolonialism
public health
sanitary engineering
science
science and technology
sociology
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- ISBN 9780520247536
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in the emerging mechanical philosophy. He traces the introduction of engine science into colonial Ireland, showing how that country subsequently became a laboratory for experiments in statecraft. Carroll's wide-ranging study, spanning institutions, political philosophy, and policy implementation, demonstrates that a number of new technological developments - from cartography, statistics, and natural history to geology, public health, and sanitary engineering - reveal how modern science came to engineer land, people, and the built environment into a material political state in an unprecedented way, creating the 'modern' state.
Shedding new light on sociology, the history of science and technology, and on the history of British colonial projects in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, his study has implications for understanding postcolonial occupations and nation-building ventures today and on contemporary dilemmas such as the role of science and government in environmental sustainability.
Patrick Carroll is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program at the University of California at Davis. He is author of Colonial Discipline: The Making of the Irish Convict System.
