Variant Title:
Role of science and technology
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : science and national identity / Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson --
The new Rome : infrastructure and national identity on the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji --
Projections of the revolutionary nation : French expeditions in the Pacific, 1791-1803 / Carol E. Harrison --
Material experiments : environment and engineering institutions in the early American republic / Ann Johnson --
The children's republic of science in the antebellum literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott / Katherine Pandora --
Points critical : Russia, Ireland, and science at the boundary / Michael D. Gordin --
Germans in Russia : Cold War, technology transfer, and national identity / Asif A. Siddiqi --
Communicating the north : scientific practice and Canadian postwar identity / Edward Jones-Imhotep --
The coproduction of neutral science and neutral state in Cold War Europe : Switzerland and international scientific cooperation, 1951-69 / Bruno J. Strasser --
"Signs of the times" : medicine and nationhood in British India / Pratik Chakrabarti --
MIT-trained Swadeshis : MIT and Indian nationalism, 1880-1947 / Ross Bassett --
Taking to the field : geological fieldwork and national identity in republican China / Grace Yen Shen --
Justice, geography, and steel : technology and national identity in Indonesian industrialization / Suzanne Moon --
European experiments / Alfred Nordmann.
