Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.
Nieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.
Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), He has written widely on the history of chemistry and natural dyestuffs, the history of science popularization and the urban history of science (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). In 2009 and 2018, he was awarded the 'ICREA-Acadèmia' Research Prize by the Catalan Government.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures Preface Acknowledgments Chronology List of abbreviations Introduction Biographies of power A political chemistry 1. Dreams of Modernity 1.1 Cosmopolitanism 1.2 Laboratories and schools 1.3 Useful chemistry 2. A republican science 2.1 A new enlightenment 2.2 Nobel visitors 2.3 The Silver Age of industry 3. War weapons 3.1 A chemical civil war 3.2 A damaged community 3.3 Tortured skills 4. Totalitarian ambitions 4.1 Fascist chemistry 4.2 Chemistry and religion 5. Autarchic ambiguities 5.1 'Our' chemicals 5.2 'Technical' chemistry 5.3 Chemical diplomacy 6. Technocratic progress 6.1 'Neutral' expertise 6.2 Cold war allies 6.3 Corporate chemistry 7. Liberal dissent 7.1 Chemists in exile 7.2 Internal refugees Conclusion: the moral ambiguity of chemistry Pure-applied chemistry Modernisation paradoxes A troubled identity Chemists as intellectuals History and memory Addendum: Juan Julio Bonet Sugrañes (1940¿2006) Bibliography Index.
List of figures Preface Acknowledgments Chronology List of abbreviations Introduction Biographies of power A political chemistry 1. Dreams of Modernity 1.1 Cosmopolitanism 1.2 Laboratories and schools 1.3 Useful chemistry 2. A republican science 2.1 A new enlightenment 2.2 Nobel visitors 2.3 The Silver Age of industry 3. War weapons 3.1 A chemical civil war 3.2 A damaged community 3.3 Tortured skills 4. Totalitarian ambitions 4.1 Fascist chemistry 4.2 Chemistry and religion 5. Autarchic ambiguities 5.1 'Our' chemicals 5.2 'Technical' chemistry 5.3 Chemical diplomacy 6. Technocratic progress 6.1 'Neutral' expertise 6.2 Cold war allies 6.3 Corporate chemistry 7. Liberal dissent 7.1 Chemists in exile 7.2 Internal refugees Conclusion: the moral ambiguity of chemistry Pure-applied chemistry Modernisation paradoxes A troubled identity Chemists as intellectuals History and memory Addendum: Juan Julio Bonet Sugrañes (1940¿2006) Bibliography Index.
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