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The Routledge handbook of science and empire / edited by Andrew Goss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--History.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- History.
- Imperialism and science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire introduces readers to important new research in the field of science and empire. This compilation of inquiry into the inextricably intertwined history of science and empire reframes the field, showing that one could not have grown without the other. The volume expands the history of science through careful attention to connections, exchanges, and networks beyond the scientific institutions of Europe and the United States. These 27 original essays by established scholars and new talent examine: scientific and imperial disciplines, networks of science, scientific practice within empires, and decolonised science. The chapters cover a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology and psychiatry to biology and geology. There is global coverage, with essays about China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, India, the Middle East, Russia, the Arctic, and North and South America. Specialised essays cover Jesuit science, natural history collecting, energy systems, and science in UNESCO. With authoritative chapters by leading scholars, this is a guiding resource for all scholars of empire and science. Free of jargon and with clearly written essays, the handbook is a valuable path to further inquiry for any student of the history of science and empire"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: an imperial turn in the history of science
- Situating the empire in history of science
- Cartography and empire from early modernity to postmodernity
- Racial science
- Meteorology and empire
- Colonial psychiatry
- Anthropology and empire
- Natural history collections and empire
- Non-western collectors and their contributions to natural history, c. 1750-1940
- Energy and empire
- Science, empire, and the old Society of Jesus, 1540-1773
- Networks of knowledge in the Indo-Pacific, 1600-1800
- Between transimperial networking and national anatgonism : German scientists in the British Empire during the long nineteenth century
- Iberian science, Portuguese Empire, and cultures of inquiry in early-modern Europe
- The dynamic trajectory of French colonialism and science
- Another empire : science in the Ottoman lands
- The planting of "colonial" science in Russian soil
- Scientific knowledge in the Qing Empire : engaging with the world, 1644-1911
- Empire, cultivation, and the environment in Southeast Asia since 1500
- Science and its publics in British India
- From history of science to history of knowledge? : themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia
- Empires and science : the case of the sixteenth-century Iberian Empire
- Science in early North America
- Science, the United States, and Latin America
- Arctic science
- Science and decolonisation in UNESCO
- Decolonising science and medicine in Indonesia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Routledge handbook of science and empire
- ISBN:
- 9781000404876
- 1000404870
- 9780429273360
- 0429273363
- 9781000404852
- 1000404854
- OCLC:
- 1252912977
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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