This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.

No…

From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way…

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced…

Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies on how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in…

Originally published in 1971.

Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as…

This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and…

Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth…

Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth…