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The Routledge History of American Science book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge History of American Science

Edited By Timothy W. Kneeland Copyright 2023
420 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area. The field of the history of science continues to grow and expand into new areas and to adopt new theories to explain the role of science and its connections to politics, economics, religion, social structures, intellectual history, and art. This book takes... Read more

Introduction
Timothy W. Kneeland

PART I
The History of American Science

  1. Science and the Atlantic World
    J. Marc McDonald

  2. Science in the American Revolution

    3. Sarah Naramore

  3. Science in the Early Republic
    David I. Spanagel

  4. Science in the Antebellum South
    Gregory Nobles

    5.

  5. Science in the Civil War and Reconstruction
    John P. Daly

  6. Science in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    Paul Neinkamp

  7. Science From World War I to World War II
    Timothy W. Kneeland

  8. Science in the Cold War
    James R. Spiller

  9. Science in the Postmodern Era
    Krisztian Szabados

    10.

    PART II

    American Science in Practice

  10. Social Studies of Science
    Charles Thorpe

  11. Laboratories and Field Experiences
    Michael J Lannoo

  12. Science and Instrumentation
    Jennifer Croissant

  13. Science and History
    H.F. Cohen

    14.

  14. Science and Religion
    Gary B. Ferngren

    15.

  15. Science and the Social Sciences
    George Steinmetz

    16.

    　

    PART III

    American Science and Power

  16. Science and U.S. Imperialism
    Joseph L. Graves

  17. Science and the Military
    Greg Whitesides

  18. Science, Technocracy, and Public Policy in the U.S
    Michael Lubell

  19. Environmental Science and Politics in the U.S.
    Christine Keiner

  20. Capitalism and Science
    Paul Lucier

    21. PART IV

    American Science and Society

  21. Climate Science
    Paul N. Edwards

    22.

  22. Structural Racism in U.S. Science
    Joseph Graves

    23.

  23. Gender and Science
    Leslie Madsen

  24. Science and Disability Studies
    Marion Andrea Schmidt

  25. Genetics in American Science
    Joseph L. Graves

  26. Science and Speciesism
    Jeroen Hopster

  27. Science in American Life
    John Durant

Biography

Timothy W. Kneeland is Professor of history and politics at Nazareth College. He is the author of Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA (2021), Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA (2020), and Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electroshock in America (2008).

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