Science and Empire
Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
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Product details:
- Edition number 2011
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Date of Publication 13 September 2011
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230252288
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XVII, 346 p. 0
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Long description:
Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
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Tables & Figures Preface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND OVERVIEW Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship; J.M.Hodge The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science, 1800-1970; B.M.Bennett PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES Science and the British Empire from its Beginning to 1850; J.Gascoigne A Networked Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855-1885; B.M.Bennett Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia; R.Tiwari 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science; P.H.Hoffenberg Between the Nation and the World: JT Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth-Century; T.Pietsch PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS AT THE END OF EMPIRE Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming; G.A.Barton 'The Chance to Send their First Class Men out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service; S. Clarke The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire; J.M.Hodge The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-59; A.Howkins Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917-1953; C.Jennings Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria; M.M.Heaton The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agricultural Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service; J.Gold Epilogue; M.Worboys Bibliography Index
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