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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History

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Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War.

Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in the early modern world; the relationship between "modernization" and "westernization" in Russia and Japan from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century; the role of science in the European colonization of Africa; and the rivalry in "big science" between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Each chapter includes original documents to further the reader’s understanding, and this second edition has been enhanced with a selection of new images and a new chapter on Big Science and the Superpowers during the Cold War.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been working in many civilizations and cultures to advance knowledge of, and power over, the natural world. Through a combination of narrative and primary sources, Knowledge and Power provides students with an understanding of how different cultures throughout time and across the globe approached science. It is ideal for students of world history and the history of science.

Author: Burns William
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Pages: 166
ISBN: 9781138637665
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2019

Introduction; Chapter One: Science in the Medieval Mediterranean; Chapter Two: The Jesuits and World Science, 1540-1773; Chapter Three: Westernization, "Modernization," and Science in Russia and Japan, 1684-1860s; Chapter Four: Africa in the Age of Imperialism and Nationalism, 1860-1960; Chapter five: Big Science, the superpowers, and the Cold War; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Ambassador William J. Burns is known as America’s ‘secret diplomatic weapon’. Having served five presidents and ten secretaries of state, he has been central to the past four decades’ most consequential foreign policy episodes. Now retired from the US Foreign Service, he is President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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