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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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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 of
engine science into colonial Ireland, showing how that country
subsequently became a laboratory for experiments in statecraft.
Carroll's wide-ranging study, spanning institutions, political
philosophy, and policy implementation, demonstrates that a number
of new technological developments - from cartography, statistics,
and natural history to geology, public health, and sanitary
engineering - reveal how modern science came to engineer land,
people, and the built environment into a material political state
in an unprecedented way, creating the 'modern' state. Shedding new
light on sociology, the history of science and technology, and on
the history of British colonial projects in Ireland from the
seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, his study has implications
for understanding postcolonial occupations and nation-building
ventures today and on contemporary dilemmas such as the role of
science and government in environmental sustainability.
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