Beyond Science and Empire

Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750-1945. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,2 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 212 Seiten
EAN 9781032553658
Veröffentlicht Juni 2025
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Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.

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Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, working on the global history of medicine. He is the author of Quand la peste connectait le monde: production et circulation de savoirs microbiologiques entre Brésil, Inde et France (1894-1922) (2020). Thomás A. S. Haddad is an Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, specializing on astral knowledge practices in early modern empires. He is the author of Maps of the Moon: Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age (2019). Kapil Raj is a Distinguished Research Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, whose research is focused on the role of intercultural encounters in the construction of modern science. He is the author of Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 (2007).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Science and Empire: Past and Present Questions Part 1: Knowledge Production on Imperial Landscapes 2. Putting Ships to New Uses: "Floating Gardens" and the Circulation of Knowledge at Sea and on Land, 1790-1800 3. Regional Knowledge in the Empire: Tobacco Cultivation during the Napoleonic Era 4. Global Communication and Construction of Knowledge in French Naval Medicine: Pierre-François Kéraudren and the Health Department of French Navy, 1813-1845 5. Positioning the North: Making British Geographical Knowledge of Australia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 6. Maps and the Man on the Spot: Bio-geographies, Knowledge, and Authority around and about the Zambezi 7. The Global Dimensions of the Rome Zoological Garden and Italian Colonialism in Africa Part 2: Knowledge Production at Imperial Crossroads 8. The Astronomical Observations of Bento Sanches Dorta in Rio de Janeiro, 1781-1787 9. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire's writings between European and Brazilian Audiences, 1816-1850 10. Commercial Statistics of Late Qing China Between Global Interest and Local Irrelevance, 1860-1910 11. Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894-1920

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