Science and civil society / edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas H. Broman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 17.Publication details: [Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002]Description: x, 373 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0226073726
  • 0226073718 (CASED)
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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