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The Cambridge History of Science

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The Cambridge History of Science

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 8: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
Hugh Richard Slotten, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
David N. Livingstone, Queen's University Belfast
April 2020
8. Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
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    This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.

    • Analyzes the history of modern science during the late eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
    • Covers the entire world, with essays on all major countries or regions
    • Valuable in university courses in the history of science, technology, and medicine

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    Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021, Choice Reviews

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    '… volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Science may so far be the most ambitious, most general contribution to the cross-border and global history of science … The volume reviewed here marks a big step towards establishing science as another major subject of global history.' Maximilian Georg, Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists

    'What makes this a unique survey of the history of science in the modern world is that each regional survey concludes with a careful critique by a noted specialist of what the other specialists have written, adding balance and helping readers to further appreciate the complexities of the rich material presented here … Highly recommended.' J. W. Dauben, Choice

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    April 2020
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Notes on contributors
    • General editors' preface
    • 1. Introduction Hugh Richard Slotten
    • Part I. Transnational, International, and Global:
    • 2. Science and imperialism since 1870 Michael Worboys and Pratik Chakrabarti
    • 3. The geomagnetic project: internationalism in science between the French Revolution and the Franco-Prussian war Nicolaas A. Rupke
    • 4. International science from the Franco-Prussian war to World War Two: an era of organization Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus
    • 5. Internationalism in science after 1940 Ronald E. Doel
    • 6. International science in Antarctica James Spiller
    • 7. Missionary science John Stenhouse
    • 8. Museums of natural history and science Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
    • 9. National scientific surveys Hugh Richard Slotten
    • 10. Expeditionary science Richard J. Sorrenson
    • Part II. National and Regional:
    • 11. United Kingdom David E. H. Edgerton and John V. Pickstone
    • 12. France: during the long nineteenth century Robert Fox and George Weisz
    • 13. France: post-1914 Dominique Pestre
    • 14. Germany Kathryn M. Olesko
    • 15. Russia and the former USSR Loren Graham
    • 16. Low countries Klaas van Berkel
    • 17. Scandinavia Jole R. Shackelford
    • 18. Italy Giuliano Pancaldi
    • 19. Spain Lino Camprubí and Thomas F. Glick
    • 20. Greece Efthymios Nicolaidis
    • 21. Portugal Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo
    • 22. Europe: a commentary David Cahan
    • 23. Middle East Yakov M. Rabkin
    • 24. India Deepak Kumar
    • 25. Maghrib of North Africa Michael A. Osborne
    • 26. Sub-Saharan Africa Georgina M. Montgomery, John M. MacKenzie and Libbie J. Freed
    • 27. Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: a commentary Hugh Richard Slotten
    • 28. China Shellen Wu and Fa-ti Fan
    • 29. Japan James R. Bartholomew
    • 30. Korea Geun Bae Kim and Yung Sik Kim
    • 31. Indochina C. Michele Thompson
    • 32. Indonesia Jennifer Munger
    • 33. Philippines Warwick Anderson
    • 34. East and Southeast Asia: a commentary Morris F. Low
    • 35. United States Ronald L. Numbers
    • 36. Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania R. W. Home
    • 37. Canada Suzanne E. Zeller
    • 38. United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania: a commentary Hugh Richard Slotten
    • 39. Spanish South America Marcos Cueto
    • 40. Greater Caribbean: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies Stuart McCook
    • 41. Brazil Marilia Coutinho and Simon Schwartzman
    • 42. Latin America: a commentary Hebe Vessuri
    • Index.
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    • Hugh Richard Slotten, Michael Worboys, Pratik Chakrabarti, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus, Ronald E. Doel, James Spiller, John Stenhouse, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Richard J. Sorrenson, David E. H. Edgerton, John V. Pickstone, Robert Fox, George Weisz, Dominique Pestre, Kathryn M. Olesko, Loren Graham, Klaas van Berkel, Jole R. Shackelford, Giuliano Pancaldi, Lino Camprubí, Thomas F. Glick, Efthymios Nicolaidis, Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, David Cahan, Yakov M. Rabkin, Deepak Kumar, Michael A. Osborne, Georgina M. Montgomery, John M. MacKenzie, Libbie J. Freed, Shellen Wu, Fa-ti Fan, James R. Bartholomew, Geun Bae Kim, Yung Sik Kim, C. Michele Thompson, Jennifer Munger, Warwick Anderson, Morris F. Low, Ronald L. Numbers, R. W. Home, Suzanne E. Zeller, Marcos Cueto, Stuart McCook, Marilia Coutinho, Simon Schwartzman, Hebe Vessuri

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    • Hugh Richard Slotten , University of Otago, New Zealand

      Hugh Richard Slotten is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (2009) and Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the US Coast Survey (Cambridge, 1994).

    • Ronald L. Numbers , University of Wisconsin, Madison

      Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught between 1974 and his retirement in 2013. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including The Creationists (1992, 2006), Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (2007), and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (2009).

    • David N. Livingstone , Queen's University Belfast

      David N. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He is the author of a number of books including Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1984), The Geographical Tradition (1992), Putting Science in its Place (2003), Adam's Ancestors (2008), and Dealing with Darwin (2006).

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