Science and Polity in France : The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years

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From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science and state.
Science.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
SCIENCE > History.
Politique scientifique et technique > France.
Sciences > France > Histoire.
Science and state > France.
Science > France > History.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to moderniz.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (752 pages).
ISBN:9781400865314

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