Scientific Advice To The Nineteenth Century British State

Author : Roland Jackson
Publisher : Sci & Culture in the Nineteent
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0822947900

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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by Roland Jackson Pdf

In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson's account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day--who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment--focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.

Author : Roland Jackson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822990055

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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by Roland Jackson Pdf

Traces the Early Evolution of Britain’s System of Scientific Advice In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson’s account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day—who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment—focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.

Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107155671

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Science and the State by John Gascoigne Pdf

The first historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II.

Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521550696

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Science in the Service of Empire by John Gascoigne Pdf

Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed intense and dramatic change, placing growing pressure on the British state and increasing its need for expert advice on scientific matters. This was largely provided by Banks, who used his personal networks and systems of patronage to integrate scientific concerns with the complex machinery of government. In this book, originally published in 1998, Gascoigne skilfully draws out the rich detail of Banks' life within the broader political framework, and shows how imperial concerns prompted interest in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. This is an important examination of the British State during a time of change and upheaval.

Author : Michael David Kandiah,Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135219949

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Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain by Michael David Kandiah,Anthony Seldon Pdf

This study looks at the influence of ideas and think tanks in Britain, contemplating how ideas have shaped politics and society. The purveyors of ideas for change - the think tanks - are examined, and academics and participants views are recorded in a number of interviews.

Author : Michael Kandiah,Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0714647713

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Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain by Michael Kandiah,Anthony Seldon Pdf

This study looks at the influence of ideas and think tanks in Britain, contemplating how ideas have shaped politics and society. The purveyors of ideas for change - the think tanks - are examined, and academics and participants views are recorded in a number of interviews.

Author : H. Ebrahimnejad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137052889

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Medicine in Iran by H. Ebrahimnejad Pdf

This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition.

Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521541166

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Defining Science by Richard Yeo Pdf

This 1993 book deals with debates about science - its history, philosophy and moral value - in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period in which the 'modern' features of science developed. Defining Science also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere - most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. William Whewell wrote major works on the history and philosophy of science before these became technical subjects. Consequently he had to define his own role as a metascientific critic (in a manner akin to cultural critics like Coleridge and Carlyle) as well as seeking to define science for both expert and lay audiences.

Author : P. Forman,José M. Sánchez-Ron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1402002505

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National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology by P. Forman,José M. Sánchez-Ron Pdf

To some philosophers, seeking to understand the human condition, technology is a necessary guide. But to think through the complex human phenomenon of technology we must tackle philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, moral issues, comparative civilizational studies, and the economics of specific industrial and military technologies in their historical contexts. The philoso pher wants to grasp the technological factor in this troubled world, even as we see it is only one factor, and that it does not speak openly for itself. Put directly, our human troubles to a considerable extent have been transformed, exaggerated, distorted, even degraded, perhaps transcended, by what engi neers and scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians, have wrought. But our problems are ancient, problems of dominations, struggles, survival, values in conflict, greed and insane sadisms. To get some conceptual light on the social reality which seems immediately to be so complicated, a philosopher will need to learn from the historians of technology. A few years ago, the philosopher Elisabeth Straker concluded that "a his torical philosophy of technology [is required] since history - and history alone - provides all those concepts that form part of the repertoire of the philosoph ical analysis of technology". And she added that this goes far beyond the triviality that like other cultural achievements technology has its historical development. Now historical comprehension is no substitute for a logical methodology in the analysis of technological problems.

Author : Sal P. Restivo
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780195141931

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Science, Technology, and Society by Sal P. Restivo Pdf

'Science, Technology, and Society' offers approximately 150 articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions worldwide. The theme is the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture.

Author : B. Bennett,J. Hodge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230320826

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Science and Empire by B. Bennett,J. Hodge Pdf

Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.

Author : Anders Boserup,Leif Christensen,Ove Nathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018633563

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The Challenge of Nuclear Armaments by Anders Boserup,Leif Christensen,Ove Nathan Pdf

Author : Sareeta Amrute
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374275

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Encoding Race, Encoding Class by Sareeta Amrute Pdf

In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent time with a core of twenty programmers before, during, and after their shifts. She shows how they occupy a contradictory position, as they are racialized in Germany as temporary and migrant grunt workers, yet their middle-class aspirations reflect efforts to build a new, global, and economically dominant India. The ways they accept and resist the premises and conditions of their work offer new potentials for alternative visions of living and working in neoliberal economies. Demonstrating how these coders' cognitive labor realigns and reimagines race and class, Amrute conceptualizes personhood and migration within global capitalism in new ways.

Author : Daniel R. LeClair
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476674995

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The British Military Revolution of the 19th Century by Daniel R. LeClair Pdf

 From the Crimean War through the Second Boer War, the British Empire sought to solve the "Great Gun Question"--to harness improvements to ordnance, small arms, explosives and mechanization made possible by the Industrial Revolution. The British public played a surprising but overlooked role, offering myriad suggestions for improvements to the civilian-led War Office. Meanwhile, politicians and army leaders argued over control of the country's ground forces in a decades-long struggle that did not end until reforms of 1904 put the military under the Secretary of State for War. Following the debate in the press, voters put pressure on both Parliament and the War Office to modernize ordnance and military administration. The "Great Gun Question" was as much about weaponry as about who ultimately controlled military power. Drawing on ordnance committee records and contemporary news reports, this book fills a gap in the history of British military technology and army modernization prior to World War I.

Author : S. C. B. Gascoigne,K. M. Proust,M. O. Robins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521353963

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The Creation of the Anglo-Australian Observatory by S. C. B. Gascoigne,K. M. Proust,M. O. Robins Pdf

An important 1990 history of the Anglo-Australian Telescope, which provides facilities for research in optical astronomy for scientists from Britain and Australia.