Science in the 20th Century and Beyond

Name: Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780745634708

ISBN-10: 0745634702

ISBN-13: 9780745634708

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jon Agar

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Book details

List price: $55.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Science after 1900



New Physics



New Sciences of Life



New Sciences of the Self



Sciences in a World of Conflict



Science and the First World War



Crisis: Quantum Theories and Other Weimar Sciences



Science and Imperial Order



Expanding Universes: Private Wealth and American Science



Revolutions and Materialism



Nazi Science



Scaling Up, Scaling Down



Second World War and Cold War



Science and the Second World War



Trials of Science in the Atomic Age



Cold War Spaces



Cold War Sciences (1): Sciences from the Working World of Atomic Projects



Cold War Sciences (2): Sciences from Information Systems



Sciences of our World



Transition: Sea Change in the Long 1960s



Networks



Connecting Ends



Conclusions



Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond


Notes


Index