How a country鈥檚 politics shape its science concerns science historian Mark Walker in Science and Ideology (Routledge, 拢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 鈥淭he transformation of nature under Hitler and Stalin鈥� shows how a common good 鈥� sustainable forests 鈥� can be destroyed when the politicians intefere.