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Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750-1945

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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 the relationship between empire and science? Was science just an instrument for imperial domination? While such guiding questions place the book in the tradition of science and empire studies, it offers a fresh perspective in dialogue with global history and circulatory approaches. The book demonstrates, not by theoretical discourse but through detailed historical case studies, that the adoption of a global scale of analysis or an emphasis on circulatory processes does not entail analytical vagueness, diffusionism in disguise, or complacency with imperialism. The chapters show scientific knowledge emerging from the actions of little-known individuals moving across several Empires--European, Asian, and South American alike--in unanticipated places and institutions, and through complex of exchange, competition, collaboration, and circulation of knowledge.

The bok will interest scholars and undergraduate and graduate studies concerned with the connections between the history of science, imperial history, and global history

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Call Number

RD 509.171 BEY

Publisher

London : Routledge., 2023

Collation

ix + 201 hlm.; 14 x 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780367814540

Classification

509.171

Content Type

digital text

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

Science
global History
Colonialism

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Statement of Responsibility

Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Thomás A. S. Haddad & Kapil Raj (ed.)

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