JOE BORD was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has completed a research fellowship in history. He has subsequently taught at Fordham University, and the City University of New York. He lives in New York.

'...Bord's thesis is interesting and important for the historian of science.' - Metascience

• Preface Manners, Science and Politics The Statesman Rational Sociability Liberality The Georgic Tradition Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index