The savant and the state : science and cultural politics in nineteenth-century France / Robert Fox.

"There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation's leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Fox, Robert, 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2012.
Series:Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.
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