COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES IN SCIENCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

ABIR-AM, P. G. / C. A. ELLIOT, EDS.

ISBN 10: 0226000931 / ISBN 13: 9780226000930

Published by UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO, IL, 1999

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ABIR-AM, P. G. / C. A. ELLIOT, EDS.: COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES IN SCIENCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY. CHICAGO, IL, 1999, xii 383 p. figuras, 690 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (GA-2-5) 690 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES IN SCIENCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO, IL
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226000931
• ISBN 13: 9780226000930
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Edition: 1ª edición.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 690 grams
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historia de la ciencia

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Synopsis

This volume breaks new ground in the study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice, and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory and, then, how historians work with—and sometimes against—those constructions. Essays focus on a variety of commemorative rites, ranging from the quincentennial of Copernicus to the centennials of Pasteur, Darwin, and Planck; from the tercentenary of Harvard to the half centennial of Los Alamos; from the centennial of evolutionary theory to anniversaries of research schools in molecular biology.

Contributors include Clark A. Elliott, Owen Gingerich, Dieter Hoffmann, Dominque Pestre, Robert W. Seidel, and V. Betty Smocovitis.