Rodrigo Fernós

Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean

VirtualbookWorm, 202, 377 pp

ISBN 978-1951985820

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Hispanic Science in the Colonial Greater Antilles

Tapia’s Lament

The Black Legend in 1900 

The Incessant Intrusion of Politics

Interlude: The Paradoxes of Science 

The Impact of Science on Political Theory

The Scientific Revolution in Sixty Seconds

Hobbes

Locke 

Montesquieu 

Bounded Liberty

Interlude: Murderous Sun 

The Impact of Science on Political Action 

Franklin

Jefferson

The French Revolution 

Shifting Tides 

Interlude: Fashionable nonsense 

Scientific Rebels

Lavoisider, War Hero 

Linnaeus 

Latin American Independence Movements

Acosta

Baldorioty

Finland 

Moral Onus

Interlude: A Plea for a Puerto Rican History of Science 

Davids versus Goliaths

On the noxiousness of avarice

The Pointilist Empire

Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Cowboy

The Sociobiological Roots of Avarice

Interlude: The Arecibo Observatory

Small State Science

The dynamics of the Small State

Science Policy for Small States

Interlude: On the benefits of democracy for the would-be tyrant

Conclusion