Science in the twentieth century and beyond / Jon Agar.
"A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global. Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an irresi...
| Uniform Title: | History of science (Polity Press)
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
2012.
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| Series: | History of science (Polity Press)
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| Physical Description: | ix, 614 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Science in the 20th century and beyond. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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 sixties ; Networks ; Connecting ends
- Conclusions: Science in the twentieth century and beyond.