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Genre/Form: | History Popular works Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean Johnston |
ISBN: | 9781851686810 1851686819 |
OCLC Number: | 339957029 |
Notes: | "A Oneworld paperback original"--Title page verso. |
Description: | viii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Big ideas and compelling approaches -- One damned revolution after another? -- Spreading a seductive idea -- Twentieth-century turns -- More than dead white European gentlemen? -- Science, history and culture: evolving perspectives. |
Series Title: | Oneworld beginners' guides. |
Responsibility: | Sean F. Johnston. |
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Weaving together intellectual history, philosophy, and social studies, this book offers an appraisal of the history of science and the nature of this discipline.
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"Compellingly written...As an introduction to the historiography of science, this book is superb...a wonderfully rich volume, ideal for the newbie historian or interested layperson." * British Society for the History of Science * Read more...
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