Science and empire in the nineteenth century : a journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress / edited by Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme and Donna Spalding Andreolle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delmas, Catherine.

Vandamme, Christine.

Andréolle, Donna Spalding.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism and science.

Science--Social aspects--History--19th century.

Science.

Science--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradigm in the discourse on and representations of otherness. The interweaving of scientific and ideological discourses is not limited to the geopolitical frame of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but extends to the rise of the American empire as well. The fields of research tackled are human and social scie...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHARLES DOUGHTY'S QUEST AND CRUSADE IN ARABIA DESERTA; "A PERFECT MAP OF PALESTINE" (1872-1880); CARTOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE; PART II; WESTERN SCIENCE, COLONISATION AND REIFICATION; THE DISCOURSE OF EMPIRICISM AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF EMPIRE; SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD; SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART III; A "REPUBLIC OF SCIENCE"?; SCIENTIFIC RHETORIC AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART IV; THE FIRST DINOSAURS AND CHANGING MUSEUM PARADIGMS IN AMERICA; POPULAR EVOLUTIONISM AND THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS; PART V; THE EDIFYING FOLD

QUESTIONING THE EMPIRE OF SCIENCENOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14174-4

1-4438-2596-4

9786613141743

OCLC:

816845313