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100	1		_aAgar, Jon, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aScience in the twentieth century and beyond / _cJon Agar.
246	3		_aScience in the 20th century and beyond
260			_aCambridge, UK ; _aMalden, MA : _bPolity Press, _c2012.
300			_aix, 614 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aHistory of science
520			_aA history of science from 1900 to the present day, this book surveys modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global. Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an irresistible resource for industrial empires, ideological programs, and environmental campaigners during this period. Science has been at the heart of twentieth century history, from Einstein's new physics to the Manhattan Project, from eugenics to the Human Genome Project, or from the wonders of penicillin to the promises of biotechnology. For some science would only thrive if autonomous and kept separate from the political world, while for others science was the best guide to a planned and better future. Science was both a routine, if essential, part of an orderly society, and the disruptive source of bewildering transformation. Here the author draws on a wave of recent scholarship that explores science from interdisciplinary perspectives to offer a readable synthesis of the historical literature on twentieth-century and contemporary science, and a study of the place of science in the modern world.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 531-593) and index.
505	0		_aScience After 1900. New physics ; New sciences of life ; New sciences of the self -- Sciences in a world of conflict. Science and the first world war ; Crisis : quantum theories and other Weimar sciences ; Science and imperial order ; Expanding universes : private wealth and American science ; Revolutions and materialism ; Nazi science ; Scaling up, scaling down -- Second World War and Cold War. Science and the second world war ; Trials of science in the atomic age ; Cold War spaces ; Cold war sciences (1) : sciences from the working world of atomic projects ; Cold war sciences (2) : sciences from information systems -- Sciences of our world. Transition : sea change in the long 1960s ; Networks ; Connecting ends -- Science in the twentieth century and beyond.
650		0	_aScience _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aScience _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aDiscoveries in science _y20th century.
830		0	_aHistory of science (Polity Press)
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