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Thanks for the clarification, Kamran! Lorraine Daston is a great source -- this is far more her area than mine. The classic that comes to my mind immediately is, as I'm sure already know, Carolyn Merchant's /The Death of Nature/. There was an excellent revisiting of the book in a special section of the history of science journal /Isis /back in 2006, where five scholars (including Merchant herself) reflect on the significance of the book and its arguments, and the scholarship since. Since you asked especially for literature reviews, I think these articles will give you many good leads. They're attached. All best, Sigrid On 12/29/2017 02:01 PM, Kamran Nayeri wrote: > Dear Sigrid: > > Thanks for your response. Allow me to be more specific. I am > interested in technology and science as means of human attempt at > mastery over nature. For 290,000 years Homo sapiens thrived with a > worldview that did not have sharp lines of demarcation between "us" > and the rest of nature. About 10,000 years ago, that changed with the > rise of the first farmers. But early farmers systematically > domesticated plants and animals hence a new worldview emerged: > anthropocentrism (human-centeredness). I am interested in learning as > much as I can about the use of technology and science that has been > used in history to dominate and control nature. In my view, that is > at the base of all class societies and the root-cause of alienation > from nature (hence social alienation). (I have written this up in Part > 2 > <http://knayeri.blogspot.com/2017/06/economics-socialism-and-ecology.html> > of my Economics, Socialism, and Ecology: A Critical Outline) To > address the present-day social and planetary crisis (one and the same > from my perspective), we must work our way out of this dilemma. > Science for the People would be a group of us that embraces a > transition to a new science and technology paradigm that works with > nature and not to dominate and control it for the human purpose at a > cost to other species. > > I have received valuable recommendations from Chandler Davis, Phil > Gasper, and Prof. Lorraine Dostan (Director, Max Planck Institute for > the History of Science) who Chandler introduced to me. > > If you and others any suggested reading (I would eventually need to > choose a few as the list gets larger) I would be much obliged. > > Once I have more recommendation, I will share the suggested readings > with the entire list. > > Happy 2018. > > Kamran > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Sigrid Schmalzer > <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > The field is so vast... Which areas are you most interested in? > > If you want books on SftP or related subjects (history of science > and political activism in the Cold War US), here are a few good ones: > > Kelly Moore, /Disrupting Science > <https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8545.html> > /Sarah Bridger, /Scientists at War > <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736825> > /Paul Rubinson, /Redefining Science/ > <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/redefining-science> > and of course... the new Science for the People documentary > collection available this week!! /Science for the People: > Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists/ > <http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people> > > But of course there are lots of other subjects out there of > interest. :) > > > > On 12/28/2017 12:08 PM, Kamran Nayeri wrote: >> Dear folks: >> >> Could anyone recommend really good literature review(s) or books >> on the history of science and technology? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Kamran > > -- > Sigrid Schmalzer > Professor, History Department > University of Massachusetts Amherst > > /Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist > China/ > <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo22541357.html> > (University of Chicago Press, 2016) > > Forthcoming from UMass Press in December, 2017: /Science for the > People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists/ > <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people> > > Forthcoming from Tilbury House Publishers in February, 2018: /Moth > and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu > Zhelong/ > <https://tilburyhouse.com/book/education-and-teaching/by-subject/multicultural/moth-and-wasp-soil-and-ocean/> > (picture book) > > > > > -- > Kamran Nayeri -- Sigrid Schmalzer Professor, History Department University of Massachusetts Amherst /Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China/ <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo22541357.html> (University of Chicago Press, 2016) Forthcoming from UMass Press in December, 2017: /Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists/ <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people> Forthcoming from Tilbury House Publishers in February, 2018: /Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong/ <https://tilburyhouse.com/book/education-and-teaching/by-subject/multicultural/moth-and-wasp-soil-and-ocean/> (picture book)