Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation

by Patrick Carroll

This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in the emerging mechanical philosophy. He traces the introduction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247531
• ISBN13: 9780520247536
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"