Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World W

Science and the State\nby John Gascoigne\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Gascoigne\nTitle: Science and the State\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of science\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781316609385\nISBN-10: 1316609383\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWas it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and political theory. John Gascoigne argues the case for an ongoing mutual dependence of the state and science in ways which have promoted the consolidation of both. Drawing on a wide body of scholarship, he shows how t.