Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian England

by MacLeod,Roy M.

• ISBN13: 9780860785354
• ISBN10: 0860785351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of science as a responsibility and opportunity for 19th-century statecraft. It illuminates the origins of environmental regulation, the creation of scientific inspectorates, the reform of scientific institutions, and the association of government with the patronage and support of fundamental research. Above all, it explores several of the ways in which British scientists became 'statesmen in disguise', negotiating interests and professional goals by association with the interests of the state as 'provider' and agent of efficiency in education and in the application of research.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xv
PART I
The Alkali Acts Administration, 1863-84: The Emergence of the Civil Scientist	85	(29)
Victorian Studies 9. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, 1965
Government and Resource Conservation: The Salmon Acts Administration, 1860-86	114
The Journal of British Studies 7, Hartford, Connecticut Conference on British Studies, 1968
Science and Government in Victorian England: Lighthouse Illumination and the Board of Trade, 1866-86	5	(50)
Isis 60, University of Chicago Press, 1969
PART II
Whigs and Savants: Reflections on the Reform Movement in the Royal Society, 1830-48	55
Metropolis and Province: Science in British Culture 1780-1850, eds Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983
Science and the Civil List, 1824-1914	1	(80)
Technology and Society 6, pp. 47-55, 1970
Of Medals and Men: A Reward System in Victorian Science, 1826-1914	81	(34)
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 26. London, 1971
PART III
Science and the Treasury: Principles, Personalities and Policies, 1870-85	115	(208)
The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Gerard L'E. Turner. Leiden: Noordhoff International Publishing, 1976
The Royal Society and the Government Grant: Notes on the Administration of Scientific Research, 1849-1914	323
Historical Journal 14, Cambridge University Press, 1971
The Support of Victorian Science: The Endowment of Research Movement in Great Britain, 1868-1900	197
Minerva 4, London, 1971
Index