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Osiris (Bruges, Belgium)

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Constructing knowledge in the history of science / edited by Arnold Thackray.

xii, 383 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.

Commemorative practices in science : historical perspectives on the politics of collective memory / edited by Pnia G. Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott.

321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.

Historical writing on American science / edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Margaret W. Rossiter.

Klima / edited by James Rodger Fleming and Vladimir Jankovic.

Scientific masculinities / edited by Erika Lorraine Milam and Robert A. Nye.

Global power knowledge : science and technology in international affairs / edited by John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth.

National identity : the role of science and technology / edited by Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson.

<p>The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capitalism," as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits this classic quandary, foregrounding the entanglements between these two powerful and unruly historical forces and tracing the diverse ways they mutually shaped each other. Key attention is paid to the practices of knowledge work that enable both scientific and capitalistic action and to the diversity of global sites and circuits in which science/capitalism have been performed. The assembled papers excavate an array of tangled nodes at the science/capitalism nexus, spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, from Nevada to Central Asia to Japan, from microbiology to industrial psychology to public health.</p>

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Commemorative practices in science : historical perspectives on the politics of collective memory / edited by Pnia G. Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott.

Historical writing on American science / edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Margaret W. Rossiter.

Klima / edited by James Rodger Fleming and Vladimir Jankovic.

Scientific masculinities / edited by Erika Lorraine Milam and Robert A. Nye.

Global power knowledge : science and technology in international affairs / edited by John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth.

National identity : the role of science and technology / edited by Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson.

Science and capitalism : entangled histories / edited by Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, and Eugenia Lean.

Renaissance medical learning : evolution of a tradition / edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi.

Music, sound, and the laboratory from 1750-1980 / edited by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, and Myles W. Jackson.

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Commemorative practices in science : historical perspectives on the politics of collective memory / edited by Pnia G. Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott.

Historical writing on American science / edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Margaret W. Rossiter.

Klima / edited by James Rodger Fleming and Vladimir Jankovic.

Scientific masculinities / edited by Erika Lorraine Milam and Robert A. Nye.

Global power knowledge : science and technology in international affairs / edited by John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth.

National identity : the role of science and technology / edited by Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson.

Science and capitalism : entangled histories / edited by Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, and Eugenia Lean.

Renaissance medical learning : evolution of a tradition / edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi.

Music, sound, and the laboratory from 1750-1980 / edited by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, and Myles W. Jackson.

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