Science, Technology, and National Socialism

2003-09-25 Business & Economics

Author : Monika Renneberg
Release : 2003-09-25
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Science, Technology, and National Socialism written by Monika Renneberg. This book was released on 2003-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 book provides a survey of the development of scientific disciplines and technical projects under National Socialism in Germany. Each contribution addresses a different aspect which is important for judging the interaction between science, technology and National Socialism. In particular, the personal conduct of individual scientists and engineers as well as the functionality of certain theories and projects are examined. All essays share a common theme: continuity and discontinuity. All authors cover a period from the Weimar Republic to the post-war period. This unanimity of approach provides answers to major questions about the nature of Hitler's regime and about possible lines of continuity in science and technology which may transcend political upheaval. The book is also the most comprehensive to date on this subject, and includes essays on engineering, geography, biology, psychology, physics, mathematics, and science policy.

Physics and National Socialism

2013-11-27 Science

Author : Klaus Hentschel
Release : 2013-11-27
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Physics and National Socialism written by Klaus Hentschel. This book was released on 2013-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] has done a great service to historians of modern physics by editing this first anthology of primary sources, excellently translated into English... The texts are well selected and range widely, from private correspondence and official memoranda to articles dealing with physics in a propagandistic or popular manner... Many of the sources are extremely interesting and appear here for the first time. Their value is further enhanced by the editor's cross-referencing and detailed notes... [The book] is also a fine introduction to the entire subject. [The] 101-page 'introduction' gives an admirable survey of German physics during the Nazi period as well as a thorough discussion of the historiography of the subject... [The book] is of such quality and usefulness that were I to choose a single book on the history of physics in the Third Reich this might well be the one." H. Kragh, Centaurus

Science and Ideology

2013-10-11 History

Author : Mark Walker
Release : 2013-10-11
Genre : History
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Download or read book Science and Ideology written by Mark Walker. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they may or may not have been directly determined by them. Science and Ideology brings together a number of comparative case studies to examine the relationship between science and the dominant ideology of a state. Cybernetics in the USA is compared to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied science policy in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that in Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, yet cover a wide range of countries and ideologies. The collection provides a unique comparative history of scientific policies and practices in the 20th century.

Hitler's Scientists

2004-09-28 History

Author : John Cornwell
Release : 2004-09-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hitler's Scientists written by John Cornwell. This book was released on 2004-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Reich A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.

Totalitarian Science and Technology

2005 Political Science

Author : Paul R. Josephson
Release : 2005
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Totalitarian Science and Technology written by Paul R. Josephson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

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