Compound Histories

Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-32549-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Cultural Dynamics of Science

Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 offers a new view of the period during which Europe took on its modern character and globally dominant position. By exploring the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, it places chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. This includes the interactive intensification of material and knowledge production; the growth and management of consumption; environmental changes, regulation of materials, markets, landscapes and societies; and practices embodied in political economy. Rather than emphasize revolutionary breaks and the primacy of innovation-driven change, the volume highlights the continuities and accumulation of incremental changes that framed historical development.

Contributors are: Robert G.W. Anderson, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, John R.R. Christie, Joppe van Driel, Frank A.J.L. James, Christine Lehman, Lissa L. Roberts, Thomas le Roux, Elena Serrano, Anna Simmons, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Sacha Tomic, Andreas Weber, Simon Werrett.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roberts, Lissa

Werrett, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: “A More Intimate Acquaintance”

Lissa Roberts and Simon Werrett

Part 1: Materials and Material Objects

1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry

Simon Werrett

2 The Case of Coal

Lissa Roberts and Joppe van Driel

3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800

Marie Thébaud-Sorger

4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808)

Elena Serrano

5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez

Part 2: Chemical Governance and the Governance of Chemistry

6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of Ceruse

Christine Lehman

7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830

Thomas Le Roux

8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch Empire

Andreas Weber

9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris École de pharmacie During Vauquelin’s Direction, 1803-1829

Sacha Tomic

Part 3: Revisiting the History of Production

10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics

Bernadette Bensaude Vincent

11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England

Frank A.J.L. James

12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 – c.1840: Sites, Production and Networks

Anna Simmons

13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860

John R.R. Christie

14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840

Robert G.W. Anderson

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Lissa L. Roberts, PhD. (1985), UCLA, is Professor of Long Term Development of Science and Technology at University of Twente. She serves also as editor-in-chief of the journal History of Science and co-edits the Brill Series "Cultural Dynamics of Science."

Simon Werrett, PhD. (2000), Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University College, London. Author of Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History (2010), he is completing a new history of experimental philosophy entitled Thrifty Science.