{"product_id":"science-and-polity-in-france-charles-coulston-gillispie-9780691115412","title":"Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic \u003ci\u003eScience and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural, political, and technical factors that encouraged scientific productivity on the eve of the Revolution. In the present monumental and elegantly written sequel to that work, which Princeton is reissuing concurrently, he examines how the revolutionary and Napoleonic context contributed to modernization both of politics and science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In politics, argues Gillispie, the central feature of this modernization was conversion of subjects of a monarchy into citizens of a republic in direct contact with a state enormously augmented in power. To the scientific community, attainment of professional status was what citizenship was to all Frenchmen in the republic proper, namely the license to self-governance and dignity within the respective contexts. Revolutionary circumstances set up a resonance between politics and science since practitioners of both were future oriented in their outlook and scornful of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Among the creations of the First French Republic were institutions providing the earliest higher education in science. From them emerged rigorously trained people who constituted the founding generation in the disciplines of mathematical physics, positivistic biology, and clinical medicine. That scientists were able to achieve their ends was owing to the expertise they provided the revolutionary and imperial authorities in education, medicine, warfare, empire building, and industrial technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Coulston Gillispie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691115419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691115412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.10w x 1.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2005 pg. 39","brand":"Charles Coulston Gillispie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086765502719,"sku":"9780691115412","price":132.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af62ae63-26e5-4588-bbbb-8ef6e5b3b9df.jpg?v=1769096447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/science-and-polity-in-france-charles-coulston-gillispie-9780691115412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}