Scientific History - Experiments in History Politics From Bolshevik Revolution to End of

"Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a re-engagement with the natural sciences. We are experiencing a "scientific turn" in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and against this backdrop, Elena Aronova argues that there was a "scientific turn" in history at every turn, for at least a century. Bigger History maps out the submerged history of historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, and values of the natural sciences by examining several waves of experimentation with the scale of history and its method, each of which surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades around 1900 to the ruptures of the Cold War"--

About the author

Elena Aronova is assistant professor of the history of science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the coeditor of Osiris, Volume 32: Data Histories and Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Aronova
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780226761381
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76138-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Europe, European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Historiography, History of Science, General and world history