Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (History of Science) - Tapa blanda

Global in scope and fresh in approach, this monumental history lays out the evolution of science during a tumultuous century.
Nature

Anyone who thinks seriously about science, and about how it used, will find [this book] a very useful source of new ways to appreciate both problems and solutions.
The Economist

A masterful, yet eminently readable, synthesis, which is unquestionably an essential addition to the library of historians of science.
School Science Review

The book historians of modern science have been waiting for... Superbly crafted, elegantly written, inventive and thought-provoking, the book makes an absolutely invaluable contribution to the history of science.  It will be indispensable to anyone who teaches, researches or is just interested in the history of modern science and the contemporary world.
Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester

A synthetic history of a subject as big, broad, and diverse as 20th-century science is a major achievement.
Steven Shapin, Harvard University

A tour-de-force, covering a period of over a hundred years in which the growth of science has been exponential, and astonishing in its coverage of the various branches of science and their inosculations. There is no other book with the same range, and command of material and recent scholarship.
David Knight, Durham University

A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global.

Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an irresistible resource for industrial empires, ideological programs, and environmental campaigners during this period. Science has been at the heart of twentieth century history - from Einstein's new physics to the Manhattan Project, from eugenics to the Human Genome Project, or from the wonders of penicillin to the promises of biotechnology. For some science would only thrive if autonomous and kept separate from the political world, while for others science was the best guide to a planned and better future. Science was both a routine, if essential, part of an orderly society, and the disruptive source of bewildering transformation.

Jon Agar draws on a wave of recent scholarship that explores science from interdisciplinary perspectives to offer a readable synthesis that will be ideal for anyone curious about the profound place of science in the modern world.