Knowledge and Power - 9781138637658

Taylor & Francis

Knowledge and PowerScience in World History\nAuthor(s): William Burns\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138637658, 978-1138637658\nSynopsis\nKnowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. \n\nFive case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in the early modern world; the relationship between \""modernization\"" and \""westernization\"" in Russia and Japan from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century; the role of science in the European colonization of Africa; and the rivalry in \""big science\"" between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Ea.