Science and Empire
豆瓣
Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
Brett M. Bennett (ed.) / Joseph M. Hodge (ed.)
简介
This new survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists. As they chart the evolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature.
目录
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Part I Historiography and Overview
1 Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship
2 The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of ‘British’ Networks of Science, 1800–1970
Part II Knowledge and Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
3 Science and the British Empire from its Beginnings to 1850
4 A Network Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855–1885
5 Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South
6 ‘A Science of Our Own’: Nineteenth Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science
7 Between the Nation and the World: J.T. Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth Centu
Part III Knowledge and Networks at the End of Empire
8 Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming
9 ‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’: The Making of the Colonial Res
10 The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Pr
11 The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of ‘Environmental Authority’ in the Contest for
12 Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in
13 Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria
14 The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Fo
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index