Cramer, Katharina C. A Political History of Big Science : The Other Europe / [electronic resource] : / by Katharina C. Cramer.. — 1st ed. 2020.. — XIX, 241 p. 5 illus. : online resource. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology). - Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology .
Chapter 1: Introduction and Framework -- Chapter 2: Historical Viewpoints on Collaborative Large-Scale Research in Europe -- Chapter 3: Establishing the First Collaborative Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Europe: The Founding History of the ESRF (1977-1988) -- Chapter 4: Founding the European XFEL: The Establishment of a Collaborative Free-Electron Laser, 1992-2009 -- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook.
Анотація: 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. .
9783030500498
10.1007/978-3-030-50049-8 doi
History. World politics. World history. History of Science. Political History. World History, Global and Transnational History.