Compound Histories

Lissa L. Roberts, PhD. (1985), UCLA, is Professor of Long Term Development of Science and Technology at University of Twente. She serves also as editor-in-chief of the journal History of Science and co-edits the Brill Series "Cultural Dynamics of Science."Simon Werrett, PhD. (2000), Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University College, London. Author of Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History (2010), he is completing a new history of experimental philosophy entitled Thrifty Science.

"In this collection, Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett propose an ambitious new agenda for examining relations between science and early industrial production, in which the centrality of chemistry is reasserted. [...] With fourteen chapters in total, the editors faced an obvious challenge of organisation, which they have met with a good measure of success. Each chapter has a well-developed introduction and conclusion, engaging with the common agenda for the volume. By articulating this agenda at length, the editors have also given a significant impulse to future research, and their comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources provides a handy resource for those investigations.- Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire), Ambix|, 2018, 1–2, DOI 10.1080/00026980.2018.1488125.Mobilized by the environmental crisis, these historians of science are tackling apolitical and economic history of nitrogen,aluminum, cobalt or uraniumunveiling the social, economic networksand complex policies in connection withagriculture, industry or even theconsumption, and revealing geographiesunpublished: in the case of aluminum,Europe in the Antilles in the nineteenth century and then toPostcolonial Ghana.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: “A More Intimate Acquaintance”Lissa Roberts and Simon WerrettPart 1: Materials and Material Objects1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical InquirySimon Werrett2 The Case of CoalLissa Roberts and Joppe van Driel3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800Marie Thébaud-Sorger4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808)Elena Serrano5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyJosé Ramón Bertomeu SánchezPart 2: Chemical Governance and the Governance of Chemistry6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of CeruseChristine Lehman7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830Thomas Le Roux8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch EmpireAndreas Weber9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris École de pharmacie During Vauquelin’s Direction, 1803-1829Sacha TomicPart 3: Revisiting the History of Production10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and PoliticsBernadette Bensaude Vincent11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century EnglandFrank A.J.L. James12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 – c.1840: Sites, Production and NetworksAnna Simmons13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860John R.R. Christie14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840Robert G.W. AndersonBibliography of Secondary Sources