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Was there a special climate that promoted both the rise the British Empire and the USA to become leading suppliers of new technologies? Royal Society, University Systems (compared to Europe), private capital and research. Present debates (e.g. genetic engineering…) in which Anglo Saxon countries show a special flexibility.
Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, the USA in the 20th – became leading economies. Why did this happen? A history from feudalism and capitalism to the modern welfare state:


Something from Gender and Science Studies: Discourse about women's access to universities and the laws of thermodynamics. (German example, not sure about British/American context)
What about the "problems" of the so-called welfare state? (Who leads "this" economy? Who's excluded?) Will we have time for a critical perspective?
Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalische Wissenschaften als Geschlechterwissenschaften? Einschreibungen physikalisch-chemischen Wissens in den Diskurs über das Frauenstudium um 1900. In: Ariadne - Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Heft 41 (2002), S. 17-25
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Heinsohn, Dorit: Physikalisches Wissen im Geschlechterdiskurs. Thermodynamik und Frauenstudium um 1900, Frankfurt am Main 2005

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Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, the USA in the 20th – became leading economies. Why did this happen? A history from feudalism and capitalism to the modern welfare state:

What about the "problems" of the so-called welfare state? (Who leads "this" economy? Who's excluded?) Will we have time for a critical perspective? [1]

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