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Scientific History - Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Scientific History - Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a
reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from
recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates
of "big history" are reassessing long-held assumptions about the
very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base.
In Scientific History, Elena Aronova maps out historians'
continuous engagement with the methods, tools, values, and scale of
the natural sciences by examining several waves of their
experimentation that surged highest at perceived times of trouble,
from the crisis-ridden decades of the early twentieth century to
the ruptures of the Cold War. The book explores the intertwined
trajectories of six intellectuals and the larger programs they set
in motion: Henri Berr (1863-1954), Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938),
Lucien Febvre (1878-1956), Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943), Julian
Huxley (1887-1975), and John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971). Though
they held different political views, spoke different languages, and
pursued different goals, these thinkers are representative of a
larger motley crew who joined the techniques, approaches, and
values of science with the writing of history, and who created
powerful institutions and networks to support their projects. In
tracing these submerged stories, Aronova reveals encounters that
profoundly shaped our knowledge of the past, reminding us that it
is often the forgotten parts of history that are the most
revealing.
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