The politics of chemistry : science and power in twentieth-century Spain /

Nieto-Galan examines the political role of chemistry in twentieth-century Spain, enriching understandings of the relationship between science and power.

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Tác giả chính: Nieto-Galan, Agustí (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Loạt:Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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  • Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Biographies of Power; A Political Chemistry; 1 Dreams of Modernity; Cosmopolitanism; Laboratories and Schools; Useful Chemistry; 2 A Republican Science; A New Enlightenment; Nobel Visitors; The Silver Age of Industry; 3 War Weapons; A Chemical Civil War; A Damaged Community; Tortured Skills; 4 Totalitarian Ambitions; Fascist Chemistry; Chemistry and Religion; 5 Autarchic Ambiguities; 'Our' Chemicals
  • 'Technical' ChemistryChemical Diplomacy; 6 Technocratic Progress; 'Neutral' Expertise; Cold War Allies; Corporate Chemistry; 7 Liberal Dissent; Chemists in Exile; Internal Refugees; Conclusion: The Moral Ambiguity of Chemistry; Pure-Applied Chemistry; Modernisation Paradoxes; A Troubled Identity; Chemists as Intellectuals; History and Memory; Addendum: Juan Julio Bonet Sugrañes (1940-2006); Bibliography; Index