(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Sabine Clarke
Author
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is open access under a CC BY license.This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain's remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane...
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic-applied distinction from the nineteenth century to today, taking stock...