Table of Contents

Part 1 Seed–Beds of Science; Chapter 1 Garden Economies; Chapter 2 The Beat of the Imagination; Chapter 3 Academic Honeycombs; Chapter 4 Glands of the Plantocracy; Part 2 The Epiphany of the Technocracy; Chapter 5 From Physiocracy to Physicism; Chapter 6 Materialists and Monists; Chapter 7 Emergent Operationalism in England 1815–61; Chapter 8 The Laws and the Prophets; Part 3 Frontier Problems; Chapter 9 Improvised Europeans; Chapter 10 The Zapadniki; Chapter 11 Science and the American Frontier 1862–1918; Chapter 12 The Rise of the Russian Technical Intelligentsia; Chapter 13 The New Political Arithmetic; Part 4 The Politics of Science; Chapter 14 Amerikanski Tempo; Chapter 15 Technocrats and the Politics of Power; Chapter 16 Science and Social Recuperation in Britain; Chapter 17 The Two Leviathans; Part 5 The Diaspora of Technology; Chapter 18 The Conversion of the Mandarins; Chapter 19 Science and the Samurai; Chapter 20 Mao's model: The Red Expert for Export; Chapter 21 An Operational World?;

About the Author

W. H. G. Armytage