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Agency and Industry: Charles C. Gillispie's “The Natural History of Industry,” Then and Now (2013)

Roberts, Lissa Louise (Author)

Technology and Culture
Volume: 54, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 922-941

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Natural history Industry Historiography Actor-network theory History of science, as a discipline History of technology, as a discipline Historians of science, modern Enlightenment 20th century, late 21st century France Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Charles Coulston Gillispie's The Discovery of the Leblanc Process and The Natural History of Industry (Isis 48 (1957): 152--70, 398--407) were unique, yet characteristic of their era. Together, they engaged with discussions of the historical relationship between science and industry. While influential contemporaries favored a narrative structured by Anglo-centrism and the linear model, Gillispie turned to France and offered a different view. Similar to sociologist Robert Merton, Gillispie argued that French Enlightenment scientists (and scientists generally) served society and the state as educators and managers in exchange for support for their essentially disinterested pursuit of scientific knowledge. Organizing useful knowledge to inspire material and intellectual progress through teaching and encyclopedic publications was therefore part of their brief. Gillispie developed this view further in the 1980s, arguing against those who would grant agency to non-humans as well as human actors. His work is thus of continuing interest for current debates.

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