The historiography of the chemical revolution : patterns of interpretation in the history of science / by John G. McEvoy.

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.

xiii, 328 pages ; 24 cm

The philosophical and historiographical terrain -- Positivism, Whiggism and the chemical revolution -- Postpositivism and the history of science -- Postpositivist interpretations of the chemical revolution -- From modernism to postmodernism: changing philosophical images of science -- The sociology of scientific knowledge and the history of science -- Postmodernist and sociological interpretations of the chemical revolution -- The chemical revolution as history.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-316) and index.