Author: Carroll, Patrick Eamonn
Title: Engineering Ireland - The Material Constitution Of The Technoscientific State
Description: UMI - University Of San Diego, 1999, reprint. Cloth, F. xiii+463pp, a fine copy. UMI Dissertation 9935447. A digital printout from a microfische source. SIGNED by the author. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Study of the way in which the Irish state in the late 17th to early 19th century embraced science in new ways in an attempt to use science to better govern. The move from the 'land & peoplel to becoming, in they eyes of Government, territory & population. The author looks at the work of Robert Boyle, William Petty, cartographic surveys, government regualtion of food & water, regulation of the medical profession & other sciences as well as new ideas in agriculture & farming.

Keywords: history, science, irish history, politics, political science