[SIGCIS-Members] New book, Science for Welfare and Warfare

[Per Lundin]

You might be interested in a new book on investigates the establishment of state-led science and technology in the economic and industrial development of Cold War Sweden:

Per Lundin, Niklas Stenlås and Johan Gribbe, eds., Science for Welfare and Warfare: Technology and State Initiative in Cold War Sweden (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2010), 320 pp.
One chapter in the book deals specifically with history of computing, namely Tom Petersson, "Private and Public Interests in the Development of the Early Swedish Computer Industry: Facit, Saab and the Struggle for National Dominance".
For more information see: http://www.shpusa.com/books/welfare_warfare.html or http://www.amazon.com/Science-Welfare-Warfare-Technology-Initiative/dp/0881354252/.

Per Lundin,
Div. of History of Science and Technology, KTH, Sweden

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