- Sheds light on the recent history of Big Science and the role of techno-scientific expertise in the process of European integration
- Draws on two case studies which have not yet been previously explored from a political history perspective, offering an in-depth analysis of transnational collaborative research
- Appeals to scholars and students in the fields of European history, transnational history, history of science and technology, STS studies, as well as scientists and policymakers in the respective fields of physics
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- About this book
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This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.
- About the authors
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Katharina C. Cramer is a historian, specialised in the history and politics of science and technology as well as the power of knowledge and innovation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She publishes on the topics of Big Science, research infrastructures and the politics of science, technology and knowledge.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: History and Politics of Big Science in Europe
Pages 1-26
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What Kind of Europe for European Big Science?
Pages 27-57
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History and Science of Research with Synchrotron Radiation
Pages 59-77
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Founding the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 1977–1988
Pages 79-128
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Establishing the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), 1992–2009
Pages 129-192
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A Political History of Big Science
- Book Subtitle
- The Other Europe
- Authors
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- Katharina Cramer
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-50049-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-50049-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-50048-1
- Series ISSN
- 2730-972X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 241
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
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