Science and Empire
Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2011
XVII, 346 pages
978-0-230-32082-6 (ISBN)
Description
Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
Reviews / Votes
"This fine volume edited by Brett M. Bennett and Joseph M. Hodge does much to make a strong case for the utility of placing empire within broader history of science studies contexts. It also provides an extremely useful set of readings suitable for anyone with interests in empire, as well as an excellent source for any course exploring science and imperialism. I recommend the book highly." (James Beattie, Environmental Values, Vol. 22 (3), August, 2016)
'This book can be recommended to all students of the history and geography of empire and science, and its accessible style and engaging presentation will ensure that it can be useful to students and scholars of all levels of experience.' - Journal of Historical Geography, Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVII, 346 p.
File size
1,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-230-32082-6 (9780230320826)
DOI
10.1057/9780230320826
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B. Bennett | J. Hodge
Science and Empire
Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
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09/2011
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
GREGORY BARTON Permanent Research Fellow in Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia BRETT M. BENNETT Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Western Sydney, Australia SABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK MATTHEW M. HEATON Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA JOSEPH M. HODGE Associate Professor of Modern British and British Imperial History, West Virginia University, USA JOHN GASCOIGNE Professor of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PETER H. HOFFENBERG Associate Professor of History, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA ADRIAN HOWKINS Assistant Professor of International Environmental History, Colorado State University, USA CHRISTIAN JENNINGS Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA TAMSON PIETSCH Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New College, University of Oxford, UK RAJIVE TIWARI Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, USA MICHAEL WORBOYS Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Manchester University, UK
Content
Tables & Figures Preface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND OVERVIEW Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship; J.M.Hodge The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science, 1800-1970; B.M.Bennett PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES Science and the British Empire from its Beginning to 1850; J.Gascoigne A Networked Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855-1885; B.M.Bennett Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia; R.Tiwari 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science; P.H.Hoffenberg Between the Nation and the World: JT Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth-Century; T.Pietsch PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS AT THE END OF EMPIRE Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming; G.A.Barton 'The Chance to Send their First Class Men out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service; S. Clarke The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire; J.M.Hodge The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-59; A.Howkins Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917-1953; C.Jennings Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria; M.M.Heaton The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agricultural Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service; J.Gold Epilogue; M.Worboys Bibliography Index
