Overview
- Offers a detailed account of the role of ocean science in British Cold War politics
- Explores the relationship between British politics and oceanography within the broader context of national politics and the drive to create international scientific collaborations
- Looks beyond ocean science to broader questions of how science policy is shaped by and shapes the course of science and of politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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This 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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Samuel 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ocean Science and the British Cold War State
Authors: Samuel A. Robinson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73096-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73095-0Published: 18 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10314-9Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73096-7Published: 03 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Britain and Ireland, Oceanography, Political History, Modern History