Science in the Service of Empire : Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution

Author(s): Gascoigne, John

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	As New
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	N/A
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Cambridge University Press
Publication Year:	2010
Publication Place:	Cambridge, UK
ISBN:	9780521181365
Book ID:	008056
Catalogue(s):	History - British

248pp, illustrated with black and white photographs. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to. Examines the political processes and the way in which the British State was transformed during the intense upheaval and change of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions.

Keywords:

Age of Revolution History of Science industrial revolution