Overview
- Offers an exceptional comparative perspective on life sciences and agriculture
- Explains the emergence and transformation of life science disciplines
- Underscores the connection between life sciences, economy and politics
- Helps to link scholarly communities in the history of life science and history of agriculture
- Presents a new perspective on the role of "founding fathers" in science such as Humboldt, Mendel
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 40)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Denise Phillips is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches history of science and early modern European history. She received her PhD in the History of Science from Harvard in 2004, and in recent years she has been the recipient of fellowships from the DAAD, the Fulbright Commission and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Her first book, Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850, was published in 2012 with the University of Chicago Press. She is currently working on a study of the agricultural sciences in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, with an emphasis on how the expansion of market-driven forms of agriculture shaped the goals and parameters of agricultural science. As part of this broader project, she is also interested in how learned traditions of natural history and natural philosophy interacted with discourses about agriculture, and in the ways that epistemic authority was secured within these fields.
Sharon Kingsland is professor in the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1981, and since then has conducted research on many aspects of the history of modern life sciences. One focus of her research has been the history of ecological science, which is the subject of two books. Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 1985, 2nd edition 1995) explores the impact of mathematical modeling techniques in population ecology, in both academic and applied contexts, from the 1920s to the 1980s. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), examines the reasons for the rapid emergence of ecology as a discipline in the United States and the subsequent development of ecology through the 20th century, culminating in the emergence of urban ecology as a new frontier in the 21st century. Exploring the history of ecology led her to consider more deeply the agricultural context of biological work and the relationship between basic and applied fields in life sciences.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture
Editors: Denise Phillips, Sharon Kingsland
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12185-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12184-0Published: 10 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36473-5Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12185-7Published: 12 February 2015
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 509
Topics: History of Science, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics