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Studies
in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
The increasing
importance of science and technology over the past 150 years— and with
it the increasing social, political, and economic authority vested in
scientists and engineers—established both scientific research and
technological innovations as vital components of modern culture. From
the health, economic, and environmental consequences of revolutions in
transportation technology to the emergence of progressive interventions
in politics and society, from the Manhattan project to the quest for
the moon, from satellites to plastics and pesticides, from the Cold War
to the high-tech revolution, the series aims to investigate the social
and political implications of science and technology and their impacts
on communities, environments, and cultural movements world-wide.
Books in the series will call upon a variety of approaches including,
but not limited to, history, science and technology studies, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, and gender studies. The series will
focus on humanistic and social science inquiries into scientific and
technological issues in the modern world to explore and elucidate
current and controversial issues in science policy. Rather than being
contributions to one side or the other of a debate, these books will
employ disciplinary approaches from the humanities and the social
sciences, especially the history, philosophy, sociology, and rhetoric
of science, to provide readers with a deeper, more sophisticated
understanding of the issues at stake in contemporary debates.
Titles in the series:
Advisory Board:
Erik M. Conway, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Frederick Rowe (Fritz) Davis, Florida State University
James Fleming, Colby College
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
To submit a manuscript, please send a letter
of
inquiry describing the project including audience, length, relation to
competing books, and special features (e.g. illustrations, tables).
Please
include a current c.v., a book outline or table of contents, and a
sample
chapter, if available. If the manuscript is not yet finished, include a
projected timetable and an estimate of the final length.
Send your inquiry to: Peter
Mickulas, Editor, Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway,
New Jersey 08854-8099; mickulas@rutgers.edu
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