From Knowledge to Power The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860-1939

Name: From Knowledge to Power The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860-1939
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ISBN: 9780521525244

ISBN-10: 0521525241

ISBN-13: 9780521525244

Edition: 2002

Authors: Harry W. Paul

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France has played a pivotal role in the development of modern science. This text provides a full-scale treatment of this dramatic expansion of French science between 1860 and 1939.

Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



From second empire to third republic: the great scentific mutation



Fata morgana: positivism in nineteenth-century French biology



Biology in the University: the success of marine biology leads but to paradigm lost



The industrial connection of University science



Science in agriculture: an increasing role in the new land of plenty



Science in the catholic universities



Scientific publication: the flood of monographs, books, and journals unleashed by the new research imperative in schools and societies



Science funding in the twentieth century: laying the foundations of the science empire



The denouement of the 1930s: a new scientific function for the state


Notes


Bibliography


Index