National military establishments and the advancement of science and technology : studies in 20th century history
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National military establishments and the advancement of science and technology : studies in 20th century history
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 180)
Kluwer Academic, c1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Historical studies of the role of military agencies and considerations of military power in the promotion of science and technology have burgeoned since the early 1980s. Initially, such studies focused chiefly on the enormous expansion of physical research in the United States in the two decades following the Second World War. More recently it has become clear - and this collection of essays aims to contribute to that recognition - that a decisive influence of military factors upon the development of science and technology is by no means limited to the United States or to that one period. This collection considers a wide range of national military and scientific cultures: Argentina, Britain, France, USA, and, especially, Germany and Spain.
Table of Contents
- Britannic Overture. British Scientific Intellectuals and the Relations of Science, Technology and War
- D.E.H. Edgerton. Mainly in Germany. Telephone Technology and its Interaction with Science and the Military, ca. 1900-1930
- H. Kragh. Theoretical Physicists at War: An Eco-Biographical Study from the Sommerfeld School
- M. Eckert. Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900-1945
- H. Mehrtens. Three Latin Countries. On the Military and the Exact Sciences in France
- L. Pyenson. Army and Science in Argentina: 1850-1950
- E.L. Ortiz. Nuclear Energy in Spain: From Hiroshima to the Sixties
- J. Ordonez, J.M. Sanchez-Ron. In the United States. The Tools of Science: Radio, Rockets, and the Science of Naval Warfare
- B. Hevly. The Military Origins of the Space Sciences in the American V-2 Era
- D.H. DeVorkin. Into Quantum Electronics: The Maser as "Gadget" of Cold-War America
- P. Forman.
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