Book contents
- The Politics of Chemistry
- Science in History
- The Politics of Chemistry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dreams of Modernity
- 2 A Republican Science
- 3 War Weapons
- 4 Totalitarian Ambitions
- 5 Autarchic Ambiguities
- 6 Technocratic Progress
- 7 Liberal Dissent
- Conclusion: The Moral Ambiguity of Chemistry
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2019
- The Politics of Chemistry
- Science in History
- The Politics of Chemistry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dreams of Modernity
- 2 A Republican Science
- 3 War Weapons
- 4 Totalitarian Ambitions
- 5 Autarchic Ambiguities
- 6 Technocratic Progress
- 7 Liberal Dissent
- Conclusion: The Moral Ambiguity of Chemistry
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Introduction presents the main historiographical framework of the book, which mainly focuses on the biographies of research school leaders, university professors, internationally distinguished scholars, industrial chemists, policy-makers and chemistry teachers and popularisers in a broad sense, with a particular focus on their role as ‘co-producers of power’. Departing from the analysis of a specific scientific community, at the same time it offers a more general approach to the culture of chemistry in the twentieth century through the international networks chemists created. After describing the state of the art of the history of chemistry and the history of science in Spain in the twentieth century, this Introduction stresses the contribution of this publication to the bigger picture of science in the twentieth century, and also the way in which chemistry and its practitioners shaped science and politics in Spain. It ends with a reflection on the tension between history and memory and the way in which the new presentism and trends of militant history have influenced the writing of this book.
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- The Politics of ChemistryScience and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019