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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. xvii, 346 pages : 22 cm. Contents: 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. 'This new survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists.As theychart theevolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature.'.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Science and Empire | Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 | B. Bennett (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Britain and the World | xvii | Englisch | 2011 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9781349321902 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. GREGORY BARTON Permanent Research Fellow in Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia BRETT M. BENNETT Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Western Sydney, Australia SABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, t.