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OverviewThis book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of ‘enemy science’, along with administrative practice informed and influenced the Institute’s Cold War program. In turn, this program helped shape decisions taken by Government, military and the civil service towards science in post-war Britain. This was not simply a case of government ministers choosing to patronize particular scientists, but a relationship between politics and science that profoundly impacted on the future of ocean science in Britain. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel A. RobinsonPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9783319730950ISBN 10: 3319730959 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 18 May 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Oceanographers at War3 De-mobbing British Oceanography: The Post-War Needs of Science4 Collaboration for Defence, Intelligence and Internationalism5 Oceanographers and Surveillance6 ‘Militant Science’: Behind Britain’s ‘Technocratic’ Moment7 New Frontiers of Oceanology and ‘Environmentalism’8 ConclusionReviewsOcean Science and the British Cold War State offers a valuable model for understanding how scientific networks are built, sustained, and dismantled and provides a welcome complement to U.S.-centric accounts of twentieth-century marine science. (Antony Adler, Isis, Vol. 110 (4), 2019) “Ocean Science and the British Cold War State offers a valuable model for understanding how scientific networks are built, sustained, and dismantled and provides a welcome complement to U.S.-centric accounts of twentieth-century marine science.” (Antony Adler, Isis, Vol. 110 (4), 2019) Author InformationSamuel A. Robinson completed a PhD in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester, UK (2015) and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of York, UK, on an AHRC funded project: Unsettling Scientific Stories: Expertise, Narratives, and Future Histories. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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