The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

by Robert Fox

How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought.

Winner of the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement of the History of Science Society

There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation's leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405229
• ISBN13: 9781421405223
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher