| Description |
x, 373 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium); 2d ser., v.17.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
History and the history of science redux: a preface / Kathyrn Olesko -- Introduction: some preliminary considerations on science and civil society / Thomas H. Broman -- Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state / Harold J. Cook -- The ladies' dairy: gender, mathematics, and civil society in early-eighteenth-century England / Shelley Costa -- Differentiating a Republican citizenry: talents, human science, and Enlightenment theories of governance / John Carson -- Science, politics, and religion: Humboldtian thinking and the transformations of civil society in Germany, 1830-1870 / Andreas W. Daum -- Teaching community via biology in late-nineteenth-century Germany / Lynn K. Nyhart -- In service to science and society: scientists and the public in late-nineteenth-century Russia / Elizabeth A. Hachten -- Statistical utopianism in an age of aristocratic efficiency / Theodore Porter -- The civic uses of science: ethnology and civil society in imperial Germany / H. Glenn Penny -- Civil society, science, and empire in late Republic France: the foundation of Paris's Museum of Man / Alice L. Conklin -- Saving China through science: the science society of China, scientific nationalism, and civil society in republican China / Zuoyue Wang -- Scientists and the problem of the public in Cold War America, 1945-1960 / Jessica Wang -- The creative possibilities of science in civil society and public life: a commentary / Celia Applegate. |
| Subject(s) |
Science -- History.
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Science -- Political aspects -- History.
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| Alternate Author |
Nyhart, Lynn K.
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Broman, Thomas Hoyt.
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