Science and Polity in France : : The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years / / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (752 p.) :; 3 line illus. 13 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Science and Politics under the Constituent Assembly
- Chapter II. Education, Science, and Politics
- Chapter III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall
- Chapter IV. The Metric System
- Chapter V. Science and the Terror
- Chapter VI. Scientists at War
- Chapter VII. Thermidorean Convention and Directory
- Chapter VIII. Bonaparte and the Scientific Community
- Chapter IX. Positivist Science
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index