Europe Morris Berman. Social Change and Scientific Organization: The Royal Institution, 1799-1844. Pp. xxv, 224. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. $17.50

• Author: Franklin B. Wickwire
• DOI: 10.1177/000271627944100127
• Published date: 01 January 1979
• Date: 01 January 1979
• Subject Matter: Articles

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&dquo;designed on the one hand to guarantee
EUROPE
the development and advancement of
China’s vital interests in world affairs,
MORRIS BERMAN. Social Change and
and on the other hand to spread Maoist
Scientific Organization: The Royal
ideology and world revolution.&dquo; While
Institution,
1799-1844. Pp. xxv, 224.
the foreign policy of the Cultural
Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
Revolution was based upon domestic
1978. $17.50.
sources and promoted the &dquo;idealism&dquo; of
world revolution, the foreign
Berman’s
policy of
thoroughly documented work
the period after 1969 had
argues that by the middle of the nine-
a different
focus and
teenth century the British
source. During the latter
government
had
period,
accepted the notion that science
a more &dquo;realistic&dquo;
policy of
moderation resulted from the
could solve most social
primacy
problems, and
which international
that the
events took
Royal Institution contributed
over
domestic considerations.
importantly to this acceptance.
The
The author discusses
change
the foundation
in policy was a result of
the Soviet
of the
invasion of Czechoslovakia
Institution, dominated in its
and the border clashes of the follow-
early days by the &dquo;improving&dquo; agricul-
ing
turalist, and its growth and ‘change as
year. Since then, Peking’s relations
with
the industrial revolution advanced. By
every country has been colored by
the
the
overriding
1840’s, indeed, the professional mid-
concern that the USSR
is
the
dle classes
main antagonist in the world
ran it. In the process, the
arena.
The United
tradition of the
States, the
gentleman amateur gave
enemy during
the Cultural Revolution,
way to the &dquo;scientific&dquo; approach, al-
was now seen
though science was not yet considered
as a valuable counterweight to Soviet
a
attempts at world hegemony.
separate occupation by mid-century.
This altered
One still was a scientist in order to use
perception of the inter-
natio...