Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal

Contents: 

• Introduction : Who is a "scientist"?
• Nature's shifting audience, 1869-1875
• Nature's contributors and the changing of Britain's scientific guard, 1872-1895
• Defining the "man of science" in Nature
• Scientific internationalism and scientific nationalism
• Nature, interwar politics, and intellectual freedom
• 'It almost came out on its own' : Nature under L.J.F. Brimble and A.J.V. Gale
• Nature, the Cold War, and the rise of the United States
• 'Disorderly publication' : Nature and scientific self-policing in the 1980s