Osiris, Volume 14: Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory (Volume 14)
ISBN-10:
0226000923
ISBN-13:
9780226000923
Edition: First Edition
Released: Feb 01, 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Format: Hardcover, 270 pages
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Description:
This volume breaks new ground in the study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice, and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory and, then, how historians work with—and sometimes against—those constructions. Essays focus on a variety of commemorative rites, ranging from the quincentennial of Copernicus to the centennials of Pasteur, Darwin, and Planck; from the tercentenary of Harvard to the half centennial of Los Alamos; from the centennial of evolutionary theory to anniversaries of research schools in molecular biology. Contributors include Clark A. Elliott, Owen Gingerich, Dieter Hoffmann, Dominque Pestre, Robert W. Seidel, and V. Betty Smocovitis.
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