Science, Africa and Europe

Contents;List of Figures ; List of Contributors; Preface: Tribute to Patrick Harries (1950-2016); 1. Creating Truth, Connecting Worlds: Science between Europe and Africa (introduction) Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn;I - Mapping and exploring;2. Peter Kolb and the Circulation of Knowledge about the Cape of Good Hope Nigel Penn, Adrien Delmas; 3. A Naturalist's Career: Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857) Sandra Naef-Gloor; 4. "Nothing but love for Natural History and my desire to help your Museum"? Ludwig Krebs? transcontinental collecting partnership with Hinrich Lichtenstein Patrick Grogan;5. The African Travels of Hans Schinz, Biological Transfer and the Academisation and Popularisation of (African) Botany in Zurich Dag Henrichsen;II - Knowledge practices between colonial and local actors;6. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee: One work's significance for European knowledge production about the Asante Empire Sonia Abun-Nasr;7. Tropical Soldiers? New definitions of military strength in the colonial context (1884-1914) Heinrich Hartmann;8. Disease and the Confluence of Knowledge: Kifafa and Epilepsy in Ulanga (Tanzania) Marcel Dreier;9. Standards and Standardizations: The history of a Malaria Vaccine Candidate (SPf66) in Tanzania Lukas Meier;III - International discourses, transnational circulations of knowledge;10. The Politics and Production of History on the Birth of Archaeology at the Cape (1827-2015) Tanja Hammel;11. Davos of Ghana? Local, national and international perspectives on tuberculosis treatment and control (ca. 1920 to 1965) Pascal Schmid;12. When Economics Went Overseas: Epistemic problems in the macroeconomic analysis of late colonial Africa Daniel Speich;Bibliography ;Index