Compound Histories : Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840

Compound Histories Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840

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 ce...

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Other Authors: Roberts, Lissa, 1954- editor (editor), Werrett, Simon, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill [2018]
Edition:First edition
Series:Cultural dynamics of science ; Volume 2.
Subjects:
Chemical engineering > Europe > History > 18th century.
Chemical engineering > Europe > History > 19th century.
Chemical engineering > France > History > 18th century.
Chemical engineering > France > History > 19th century.
Chemical engineering > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Chemical engineering > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Chemistry > Europe > History > 18th century.
Chemistry > Europe > History > 19th century.
Chemistry > France > History > 18th century.
Chemistry > France > History > 19th century.
Chemistry > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Chemistry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Chemistry, Technical > Europe > History > 18th century.
Chemistry, Technical > Europe > History > 19th century.
Chemistry, Technical > France > History > 18th century.
Chemistry, Technical > France > History > 19th century.
Chemistry, Technical > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Chemistry, Technical > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: “A More Intimate Acquaintance” / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett
  • 1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry / Simon Werrett
  • 2 The Case of Coal / Lissa L. 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
  • 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
  • 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 / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett.

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