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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 September 2009
      29 November 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511529672
      9780521265041
      9780521525244
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529672
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.743kg, 426 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.759kg, 428 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, General Science
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    History of Science, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, General Science
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    France 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.

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