Agusti Nieto-Galan

Politics of Chemistry (eBook, PDF)

Science and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

Nieto-Galan examines the political role of chemistry in twentieth-century Spain, enriching understandings of the relationship between science and power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108600903
• Artikelnr.: 70909015

Autorenporträt

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.