Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empir…

Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 until 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology. in this period, most of the world was under some form of imperial control, while science emerged as a discrete field of activity. What was t…

Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empir…

Edition

1st ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780367814540

Collation

ix + 201 hlm.; 14 x 21 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

RD 509.171 BEY

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