458 Pages
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Routledge
458 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been virtually dragged on to the political stage because of their 'collectivities' - groups formed over the last four centuries often more fugitive than institutional - which have helped modify the human... Read more
Part 1 Seed–Beds of Science; Chapter 1 Garden Economies; Chapter 2 The Beat of the Imagination; Chapter 3 Academic Honeycombs; Chapter 4 Glands of the Plantocracy; Part 2 The Epiphany of the Technocracy; Chapter 5 From Physiocracy to Physicism; Chapter 6 Materialists and Monists; Chapter 7 Emergent Operationalism in England 1815–61; Chapter 8 The Laws and the Prophets; Part 3 Frontier Problems; Chapter 9 Improvised Europeans; Chapter 10 The Zapadniki; Chapter 11 Science and the American Frontier 1862–1918; Chapter 12 The Rise of the Russian Technical Intelligentsia; Chapter 13 The New Political Arithmetic; Part 4 The Politics of Science; Chapter 14 Amerikanski Tempo; Chapter 15 Technocrats and the Politics of Power; Chapter 16 Science and Social Recuperation in Britain; Chapter 17 The Two Leviathans; Part 5 The Diaspora of Technology; Chapter 18 The Conversion of the Mandarins; Chapter 19 Science and the Samurai; Chapter 20 Mao's model: The Red Expert for Export; Chapter 21 An Operational World?;
Biography
W. H. G. Armytage
