{"product_id":"from-knowledge-to-power-the-rise-of-the-science-empire-in-france-1860-1939-paperback-9780521525244","title":"From Knowledge to Power; The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860–1939 (Paperback) 9780521525244","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Knowledge to Power\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860–1939\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first full-scale treatment of a period of dramatic expansion in French science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarry W. Paul (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521525244, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 November 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e428 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.759 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrance has played a pivotal role in the development of modern science. Especially striking and controversial has been the way in which the state has organized scientific endeavor. After the 1880s reinvigorated university faculties played a key role in the growth of science in France, and many faculty scientists enjoyed close relations with industry, agriculture, the military, and politics. During the Third Republic the idea of governmental responsibility to support research became a dogma, due to the stimulus that science was perceived to give to the French economy. By 1939 a working mechanism of state funding for science, buttressed by a complex scientific ideology, had come into existence and provided the foundations for the development of a new structure of scientific research and education in the postwar era. From Knowledge to Power is the first full-scale treatment of this dramatic expansion of French science between 1860 and 1939.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. From second empire to third republic: the great scientific mutation\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fata morgana: positivism in nineteenth-century French biology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Biology in the University: the success of marine biology leads but to paradigm lost\u003cbr\u003e 4. The industrial connection of University science\u003cbr\u003e 5. Science in agriculture: an increasing role in the new land of plenty\u003cbr\u003e 6. Science in the catholic universities\u003cbr\u003e 7. Scientific publication: the flood of monographs, books, and journals unleashed by the new research imperative in schools and societies\u003cbr\u003e 8. Science funding in the twentieth century: laying the foundations of the science empire\u003cbr\u003e 9. The denouement of the 1930s: a new scientific function for the state\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005642395928,"sku":"9780521525244","price":47.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521525244i_e43a86ab-8848-4db1-8683-0b3779c539be.jpg?v=1691368886","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-knowledge-to-power-the-rise-of-the-science-empire-in-france-1860-1939-paperback-9780521525244","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}