Scientific History : Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Russia as Method -- 1. The Quest for Scientific History -- Two Unity of Science Movements -- Positivism, History, and Henri Berr's Historical Synthesis -- Historical Synthesis and the History of Science -- The Internationalist Politics of Synthesi...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2021
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| Schlagworte: | Science Historiography History History-Methodology-History.. Historiography-History-Europe-20th century.. Historiography-History-20th century Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Russia as Method -- 1. The Quest for Scientific History -- Two Unity of Science Movements -- Positivism, History, and Henri Berr's Historical Synthesis -- Historical Synthesis and the History of Science -- The Internationalist Politics of Synthesis -- 2. Scientific History and the Russian Locale -- Russia and the West -- Russian Historiography on the World Stage -- Marxism and History -- The Great Break -- Bukharin and the History of Science -- London 1931 -- 3. Nikolai Vavilov, Genogeography, and History's Past Future -- The Geographies of History and the Genetic Archive -- The Mendeleev of Biology -- Vavilov's Genogeography and the Bolsheviks' Geopolitics -- A "New Kind of History" -- The Politics of History -- 4. Julian Huxley's Cold Wars -- Julian Huxley's Two Careers -- A Journey to a Utopian Future -- The Crisis in Soviet Genetics and Julian Huxley's Cold Wars -- Huxley's Evolutionary History -- 5. The UNESCO "History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development" Project -- History by Committee -- Febvre's Cahiers: Historical Journals and the Making of Historical Knowledge -- Cold War Internationalism and the Writing of History -- 6. Information Socialism, Historical Informatics, and the Markets -- Envisioning History as Data Science -- Historians and Computers -- The Socialist Market for a Capitalist Data Product -- Epilogue -- Past Futures of the History of Science -- List of Archive Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226761411 022676141X 9780226761381 022676138X |