The Routledge handbook of science and empire

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Title
"The Routledge handbook of science and empire"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Andrew Goss
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
26 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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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, ..."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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