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Science for the Nation

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Infected by the Bacillus of Science: The Explosion of South Kensington
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    Chapter 3 The First Years: The Science Museum at War and Peace
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    Chapter 4 The Science Museum and the Second World War
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    Chapter 5 Ambition and Anxiety: The Science Museum, 1950–1983
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    Chapter 6 Parallax Error? A Participant’s Account of the Science Museum, c.1980–c.2000
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    Chapter 7 Waves of Change: How the Science Museum’s Library Rose, Fell and Rose Again
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    Chapter 8 ‘A Worthy and Suitable House’: The Science Museum Buildings and the Temporality of Space
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    Chapter 9 Exhibiting Science: Changing Conceptions of Science Museum Display
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    Chapter 10 Beyond the Children’s Gallery: The Influence of Children on the Development of the Science Museum
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    Chapter 11 ‘An Effective Organ of Public Enlightenment’: The Role of Temporary Exhibitions in the Science Museum
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    Chapter 12 Collecting for the Science Museum: Constructing the Collections, the Culture and the Institution
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    Chapter 13 Behind the Scenes: Housing the Collections
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    Chapter 14 The International Context and the Context of Internationalism
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    Chapter 15 Afterword: A Speech made at the Dinner to Celebrate the Centenary of the Science Museum on 11 June 2009 by Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Director of the Science Museum
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Chapter title
Introduction
Chapter number 1
Book title
Science for the Nation
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2010
DOI 10.1057/9780230283145_1
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-31119-4, 978-0-230-28314-5
Authors

Peter J. T. Morris, Morris, Peter J. T.