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Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation

Автор: Patrick Carroll
Год: 2006
Издание: University of California Press
Страниц: 290
ISBN: 0520247531
This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in the emerging mechanical philosophy. He traces the introduction of engine science into colonial Ireland, showing how that country subsequently became a laboratory for experiments in statecraft. Carroll's wide-ranging study, spanning institutions, political philosophy, and policy implementation, demonstrates that a number of new technological developments--from cartography, statistics, and natural history to geology, public health, and sanitary engineering--reveal how modern science came to engineer land, people, and the built environment into a material political state in an unprecedented way, creating the...
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