Download or read book Histoire des sciences et des savoirs t 2 Modernit et globalisation written by Collectif and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2015-10-15T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une ambitieuse Histoire des sciences et des savoirs, transnationale, en trois tomes, illustrée, sous la direction de Dominique Pestre Se donnant comme " la Modernité ", les années 1770 à 1914 sont le temps de l'industrialisation et de l'expansion impériale et coloniale. La science est victorieuse, la technique est reine, la Terre est quadrillée et mesurée, les populations sont mises en nombres, les races sont cartographiées. Laboratoires, universités et musées se répandent à l'échelle planétaire. Réunissant les contributions de spécialistes des quatre coins du monde, ce deuxième tome de l' Histoire des sciences et des savoirs nous parle des sciences physiques et mathématiques, des sciences et savoirs en Inde, de la révolution Meiji et du " provincialisme " colonial des sciences américaines. Il raconte aussi l'avènement des microbes et leur impact sur les sociétés, l'engouement populaire pour les expositions universelles et, déjà, les inquiétudes des contemporains pour la détérioration du climat. Il Un livre concret qui brosse un XIXe siècle fascinant et... inquiétant. Kapil Raj est directeur d'études à l'EHESS, historien des interactions culturelles entre Européens et Asiatiques dans le domaine des savoirs et des sciences. Il a publié Relocating Modern Science : Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 (2007). Otto Sibum est professeur d'histoire des sciences à l'université d'Uppsala. Il a codirigé avec David Aubin et Charlotte Bigg, The Heavens on Earth, Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth Century Science and Culture (2010). Avec les contributions de A. Alexander, D. Aubin, L. Berlivet, J.E. Chaplin, B. Douglas, W. Feuerhahn, J.-B. Fressoz, S. Höhler, K. Ito, M.R. Levin, F. Locher, I. Löwy, S. Müller-Wille, J.V. Pickstone, K. Raj, S. Schaffer, N. Schlanger, H.O. Sibum, J. Tresch, M.N. Wise
Download or read book Histoire des sciences et des savoirs written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les trois tomes s'enchaînent selon une logique chronologique (1. De la Renaissance aux Lumières ; 2. Modernité et globalisation, 1770-1914 ; 3. Le siècle des technosciences, depuis 1914) mais sont structurés selon une même organisation thématique. Ils dégagent dans un premier temps ce qu'est la science à chaque époque et comment elle s'inscrit dans la société et la culture de la période, puis offrent un panorama approfondi de l'évolution des principaux champs et disciplines phares, et enfin replacent les évolutions scientifiques dans l'histoire globale et dans les enjeux de gouvernement (de la nature, des corps, des savoirs, de la société, du progrès, de ses risques, etc.). Se donnant comme "la Modernité", les années 1770 à 1914 sont le temps de l'industrialisation et de l'expansion impériale et coloniale. La science est victorieuse, la technique est reine, la Terre est quadrillée et mesurée, les populations sont mises en nombres, les races sont cartographiées. Laboratoires, universités et musées se répandent à l'échelle planétaire. Réunissant les contributions de spécialistes des quatre coins du monde, ce deuxième tome de l'Histoire des sciences et des savoirs nous parle des sciences physiques et des mathématiques, des sciences et des savoirs en Inde, de la révolution Meiji et du "provincialisme" colonial des sciences américaines. Il raconte aussi l'avènement des microbes et leur impact sur les sociétés, l'engouement populaire pour les expositions universelles et, déjà, les inquiétudes des contemporains face à la détérioration du climat. Un livre concret qui brosse un XIXe siècle fascinant et... inquiétant.
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Download or read book Creolised Science written by Dorit Brixius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation – the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities – Brixius examines the production of knowledge on an island without long-established traditions of botany as understood by Europeans. Once foreign plants and knowledge arrived in Mauritius, they were adapted to new environmental circumstances and a new socio-cultural space. Brixius explores how French colonists, settlers, mediators, labourers and enslaved people experienced and shaped the island's botanical past, centring the contributions of subaltern actors. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, within a melting pot of cultivation traditions from around the world, she presents a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
Download or read book Le gouvernement des ressources naturelles science et territorialit s de l tat qu b cois 1867 1939 written by Stéphane Castonguay and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government of Natural Resources explores government scientific activity in Quebec from Confederation until the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role. By tracing the history of geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services, Stéphane Castonguay reveals how the exploitation of natural resources became a tool of government. As it shaped territorial and environmental transformations, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. This thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development reaches well beyond provincial borders, changing the way we think of science and state power.
Download or read book Deep Time Images in the Age of Globalization written by Oscar Moro Abadía and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This open access volume explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research's Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities. The book uses seven main themes to explore theoretical, methodological, ethical, and practical developments that are orienting the study of Pleistocene and Holocene arts in the age of globalization. Compiling studies as diverse as genetics, visualization, with the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated archaeological techniques, means that vast quantities of materials and techniques are now incorporated into the analysis of the world's visual cultures. Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization aims to promote critical reflection on the multitude of positive - and negative - impacts that globalization has wrought in rock art research. The volume brings new theoretical frameworks as well as engagement with indigenous knowledge and perspectives from art history. It highlights technical, methodological and interpretive developments, and showcases rock art characteristics from previously unknown (in the global north) geographic areas. This book provides comparative approaches on rock art globally and scrutinises the impacts of globalization on research, preservation, and management of deep-time art. This book will appeal to archaeologists, social scientists and art historians working in the field as well as lovers of rock art.
Download or read book Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology written by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere. This is a largely untold history that needs to be unpacked. This book brings to light some of the events leading towards interdisciplinary relations in archaeology from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It encompasses ten scholarly contributions that offer a critical overview of this complex, dynamic and long-lasting transformative process. This is a pioneering project in the field of the history of archaeology, as it is the first to examine the inclusion into archaeological practice of various disciplines categorized under the umbrella of hard, natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. The authors of this volume include internationally acknowledged scholars of the history of archaeology, such as Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Nathan Schlanger and Oscar Moro, as well as other well-established authors in the field from Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. The chapters cover a wide range of topics. Several of them deal with interdisciplinarity in archaeology on a more general level by analysing its relationship with other sciences in specific countries. Other chapters discuss the incorporation of disciplines such as palynology and zoology into archaeology, either on a wider scale or using certain countries as case studies. Some authors focus on the work of scholars as starting points for examining the intersection between antiquarianism, archaeology, the natural sciences and numismatics, while others theorize on the influence of epistemology and philosophy of science on archaeological theory and practice. Finally, the influence of the army is also discussed in the development of archaeology.
Download or read book The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy 1790 1880 written by Borbala Zsuzsanna Török and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, author Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.
Download or read book Knowledge and the Early Modern City written by Bert De Munck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed. Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global networks of trade and exchange during the early modern period. Moreover, new ideas about the relationship between nature and the transcendent, as well as technological transformations, impacted upon both considerably. This book addresses the entanglement between knowledge production and the early modern urban environment while incorporating approaches to the city and knowledge in which both are seen as emerging from hybrid networks in which human and non-human elements continually interact and acquire meaning. It highlights how new forms of knowledge and new conceptions of the urban co-emerged in highly contingent practices, shedding a new light on present-day ideas about the impact of cities on knowledge production and innovation. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called ‘modern’ knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge.
Download or read book Methodological Challenges in Nature Culture and Environmental History Research written by Jocelyn Thorpe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.
Download or read book Positive Law from the Muslim World written by Baudouin Dupret and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the concept of law be indiscriminately extended to times and places in which it did simply not exist? Such an extension is at best useless and at worst misleading. Producing an intelligible jurisprudence of the concept of law means keeping it within the reasonable boundaries of its contemporary common-sense understanding: positive law. Parallel to Western societies in which it firstly emerged, the concept of positive law developed in many places, including countries characterized as Muslim. There, it faced other existing normativities, like customs and the Sharia. This book aims, from the Muslim world's perspective, to clarify the uses of the concept of law and the ways of studying it, to describe some of its historical developments, including the ideas of constitutional law, customary law and forensic evidence, and to describe present-day practices, including reference to law sources, rules and interpretation.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory written by Chiel van den Akker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three parts – Modes and Schools of Historical Thought, Epistemology and Metaphysics of History, and Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory – it offers the reader a wide scope and expert treatment of each topic in this vibrant field that can be read in any order. An international team of experts both discuss the basis of their topic and present their own view, offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both students and specialists in the field of historical theory and engaging with the very nature of historical thought, the metaphysics of historical existence, the politics of history-writing, and the intelligibility of the historical process. The volume is an indispensable companion to the study of history and essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.
Download or read book Histoire des sciences et des savoirs written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savants, médecins, administrateurs, artisans et amateurs composent le monde des sciences à l'époque moderne. Des mathématiques mixtes au triomphe de l'histoire naturelle, de la cartographie à la question des races, de la philosophie naturelle à l'économie politique, et des jardins botaniques aux théâtres d'anatomie, les circulations sont nombreuses qui nous permettent d'enrichir les histoires disciplinaires. Mais cet ancien régime des sciences et des savoirs ne se limite pas à l'Europe, il s'embarque avec les marins, les marchands et les missionnaires, dans l'océan Indien, au Mexique, en Chine - à la conquête du monde. Ce premier tome propose une autre lecture du lien entre sciences et première modernité et permet d'en finir avec les représentations trop classiques de la " révolution scientifique ".
Download or read book Cultures without Culturalism written by Karine Chemla and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to lapse into a kind of essentialism that flattens the range and variety of scientific work. The book refers to this tendency as culturalism. The contributors to the volume model a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of culturalism. They examine, among other issues, the potential of using notions of culture to study behavior in financial markets; the ideology, organization, and practice of earthquake monitoring and prediction during China's Cultural Revolution; the history of quadratic equations in China; and how studying the "glass ceiling" and employment discrimination became accepted in the social sciences. Demonstrating the need to understand the work of culture as a fluid and dynamic process that directly both shapes and is shaped by scientific practice, Cultures without Culturalism makes an important intervention in science studies. Contributors. Bruno Belhoste, Karine Chemla, Caroline Ehrhardt, Fa-ti Fan,Kenji Ito, Evelyn Fox Keller, Guillaume Lachenal, Donald MacKenzie, Mary S. Morgan, Nancy J. Nersessian, David Rabouin, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Claude Rosental, Koen Vermeir
Download or read book Transfixed by Prehistory written by Maria Stavrinaki and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to surmise the age of the Earth; second, to find the point of emergence of human beings; and third, to ponder the age of art. Maria Stavrinaki considers the inseparability of these accounts of temporality from the disruptive forces of modernity. She asks what a history of modernity and its art would look like if considered through these three interwoven inventions of the longue durée. Transfixed by Prehistory attempts to articulate such a history, which turns out to be more complex than an inevitable march of progress leading up to the Anthropocene. Rather, it is a history of stupor, defamiliarization, regressive acceleration, and incessant invention, since the “new” was also found in the deep sediments of the Earth. Composed of as much speed as slowness, as much change as deep time, as much confidence as skepticism and doubt, modernity is a complex phenomenon that needs to be rethought. Stavrinaki focuses on this intrinsic tension through major artistic practices (Cézanne, Matisse, De Chirico, Ernst, Picasso, Dubuffet, Smithson, Morris, and contemporary artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Hirschhorn), philosophical discourses (Bataille, Blumenberg, and Jünger), and the human sciences. This groundbreaking book will attract readers interested in the intersections of art history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, mythology, geology, and archaeology.
Download or read book Histoire des sciences et des savoirs written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se donnant comme " la Modernité ", les années 1770 à 1914 sont le temps de l'industrialisation et de l'expansion impériale et coloniale. La science est victorieuse, la technique est reine, la Terre est quadrillée et mesurée, les populations sont mises en nombres, les races sont cartographiées. Laboratoires, universités et musées se répandent à l'échelle planétaire. Ce deuxième tome est consacré aux sciences physiques et mathématiques, aux sciences et savoirs en Inde, à la révolution Meiji et au " provincialisme " colonial des sciences américaines. Il raconte aussi l'avènement des microbes et leur impact sur les sociétés, l'engouement populaire pour les expositions universelles et, déjà, les inquiétudes des contemporains pour la détérioration du climat. Un livre concret qui brosse un XIXe siècle fascinant et... inquiétant.
Download or read book State Law and Legal Positivism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume emphasizes its depth and scale and explores the phenomenon in the contexts of Morocco, Egypt, India, the Ottoman empire, China, and Japan.
