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The Savant and the State
Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Fox provides a comprehensive history of the public face of French science from the Bourbon Restoration to the outbreak of the Great War. Following the Enlightenment, many different interests competed to define the role of science and technology in French society. Political and religious conservatives tended to blame the scientific community for upsetting traditional values and, implicitly, delivering France into the hands of revolutionary extremists and Napoleonic bureaucrats. Scientists, for their part, embraced the belief that observation and experimentation offered the surest way to the knowledge and wisdom on which the welfare of society depended. This debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.
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"Such a bold undertaking would flounder in the hands of anyone not possessed of superior scholarship and decades of experience. Savant and the State could have been written by no one other than Robert Fox."—Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Network
"A skilful balance between speculative and thought-provoking thematic work and accounts of the specific, the confined, and the material . . . Brilliant and well-researched."—Sophie Waring, British Journal for the History of Science
"This work should be of inestimable value to all historians of science, France, and European culture."—Martin S. Staum, American Historical Review
"A valuable synthesis of the variety of political and cultural roles played by the scientific enterprise in France from the end of the First Empire to the outbreak of World War I. . . A broad-ranging, balanced survey of the state of the field. . . In The Savant and the State, Fox has written what is likely to remain the definitive survey of public science in nineteenth-century France for some time to come."—Alex Csiszar, Journal of Modern History
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