History of Science & Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

   Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

   Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultural Technologies

   The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society

   Edited by Göran Bolin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reforming Capitalism

   The Scientific Worldview and Business

   By Rogene Buchholz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education. Science serves many purposes in business organizations; it is much more than just a method to gain knowledge about...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since

   The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding

   By Jonathan Harwood

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. War, Agriculture, and Food

   Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

   Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt

   Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection

   By Nahyan Fancy

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book helps situate a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the lifesciences: the discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood, a prerequisite for WilliamHarvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. By revealingthe social, religious, philosophical and medical...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Historical Disasters in Context

   Science, Religion, and Politics

   Edited by Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Islam and Science

   The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

   By Robert Morrison

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone,...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. Prafulla Chandra Ray

   The Chemistry of a National Life

   By Benjamin Zachariah

   Series: Pathfinders

   Published November 30th 2011 by Routledge India
10. From Molecular Genetics to Genomics

    The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics

    Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

    With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. Maps of genomes have become the icons for a comprehensive knowledge of the organism on a previously unattained level of complexity, and the organisation of genetic knowledge in maps has been a major driving force in the...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge