Science and Polity in France : : The End of the Old Regime / / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the e...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©1981 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (616 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on the Citations
- Part One. Institutions
- Chapter I. The State And Science
- Chapter II. Science and the State
- Part Two. Professions
- Chapter III. Science and Medicine
- CHAPTER IV. Scientists and Charlatans
- Part Three. Applications
- CHAPTER V. Trades and Agriculture
- CHAPTER VI. Industry and Invention
- CHAPTER VII. Engineering, Civil and Military
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index