Scientific history : experiments in history and politics from the Bolshevik revolution to the end of the Cold War / Elena Aronova
Introduction -- The quest for scientific history -- Scientific history and the Russian locale -- Nikolai Vavilov, genogeography, and history's past future -- Julian Huxley's cold wars -- The UNESCO "History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development" Project -- Information s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource; Illustrationen |
| Notes: | Includes index |
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| Summary: | Introduction -- The quest for scientific history -- Scientific history and the Russian locale -- Nikolai Vavilov, genogeography, and history's past future -- Julian Huxley's cold wars -- The UNESCO "History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development" Project -- Information socialism, historical informatics, and the markets -- Epilogue "Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a re-engagement with the natural sciences. We are experiencing a "scientific turn" in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and against this backdrop, Elena Aronova argues that there was a "scientific turn" in history at every turn, for at least a century. Bigger History maps out the submerged history of historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, and values of the natural sciences by examining several waves of experimentation with the scale of history and its method, each of which surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades around 1900 to the ruptures of the Cold War"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9780226761411 |
| ac_no: | AC16307902 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Elena Aronova |