The Routledge History of American Science

ISBN-13: 9780367631710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 464 str.

Opis

The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area.

Spis treści

0. Introduction  PART I: The History of American Science  1. Science and the Atlantic World  2. Science in the American Revolution  3. Science in the Early Republic  4. Science in the Antebellum South  5. Science in the Civil War and Reconstruction  6. Science in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era  7. Science From World War I to World War II  8. Science in the Cold War  9. Science in the Postmodern Era  PART II: American Science in Practice  10. Social Studies of Science  11. Laboratories and Field Experiences  12. Science and Instrumentation  13. Science and History  14. Science and Religion  15. Science and the Social Sciences  PART III: American Science and Power  16. Science and U.S. Imperialism  17. Science and the Military  18. Science, Technocracy, and Public Policy in the U.S  19. Environmental Science and Politics in the U.S.  20. Capitalism and Science  PART IV: American Science and Society  21. Climate Science  22. Structural Racism in U.S. Science  23. Gender and Science  24. Science and Disability Studies  25. Genetics in American Science  26. Science and Speciesism  27. Science in American Life

O autorze

Timothy W. Kneeland is Professor of history and politics at Nazareth College. He is the author of Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of ’77 and the Creation of FEMA (2021), Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA (2020), and Pushbutton Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electroshock in America (2008).