288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Marie Walker; Chapter 2 Science and Totalitarianism, Yakov M. Rabkin, Elena Z. Mirskaya; Chapter 3 “Ideologically Correct” Science, Michael Gordin, Walter Grunden, Mark Walker, Zuoyue Wang; Chapter 4 From Communications Engineering to Communications Science, David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, Slava Gerovitch; Chapter 5 Science Policy in Post-1945 West Germany and Japan, Richard H. Beyler, Morris F. Low; Chapter 6 The Transformation of Nature under Hitler and Stalin, Paul Josephson, Thomas Zeller; Chapter 7 Legitimation through Use, Burghard Ciesla, Helmuth Trischler; Chapter 8 Weaving Networks, Uwe Hoßfeld, Jürgen John, Rüdiger Stutz; Chapter 9 Friedrich Möglich, Dieter Hoffmann, Mark Walker;
Biography
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).
