Compound histories : materials, governance, and production, 1760-1840 /
edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Werrett.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
- 1 online resource.
- Cultural dynamics of science, 2 2351-9932 ; .
- Cultural dynamics of science ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: "A More Intimate Acquaintance" / 1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry / 2 The Case of Coal / 3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800 / 4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton's Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808) / 5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / 6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of Ceruse / 7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830 / 8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch Empire / 9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris École de pharmacie During Vauquelin's Direction, 1803-1829 / 10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics / 11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England / 12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 -- c.1840: Sites, Production and Networks / 13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860 / 14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840 / Bibliography of Secondary Sources / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett -- Simon Werrett -- Lissa L. Roberts and Joppe van Driel -- Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- Elena Serrano -- José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez -- Christine Lehman -- Thomas Le Roux -- Andreas Weber -- Sacha Tomic -- Bernadette Bensaude Vincent -- Frank A.J.L. James -- Anna Simmons -- John R.R. Christie -- Robert G.W. Anderson -- Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett.
A history of chemical developments and their impacts on technology and society in France, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe.