How a country’s politics shape its science concerns science historian Mark Walker in Science and Ideology (Routledge, £16.99). He has edited a collection of scholarly essays, so this is a book for specialists.
It covers much interesting ground. The clash of cultures in forestry, for example, described by Paul Josephson and Thomas Zeller in “The transformation of nature under Hitler and Stalin” shows how a common good – sustainable forests – can be destroyed when the politicians intefere.
