Science and empire in the nineteenth century a journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress /
The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradigm in the discourse on and representations of otherness. The interweaving of scientific and ideological discourses is not limited to the geop...
| Други автори: | Delmas, Catherine., Vandamme, Christine., Andreolle, Donna Spalding. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2010.
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Science and empire in the nineteenth century. |
Съдържание:
- pt. 1. Space and structures of power
- Charles Doughty's quest and crusade in Arabia deserta / Catherine Delmas
- 'A perfect map of Palestine' (1872-1880) : biblical geography, intelligence and prophecy / Stephanie Prevost
- Cartography in the age of science : the mapping of Ireland in the nineteenth century / Valerie Morisson
- pt. 2. Classifying plant and human species
- Western science, colonisation and reification : a case study of the utilitarian use of botany in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon / Christine Vandamme
- The discourse of empiricism and the legitimization of empire / Anne Le Guellec
- Skeletons in the cupboard : imperial science and the collection and museumization of indigenous remains / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
- Science and the American empire : the American school of anthropology and the justification of expansionism / Donna Spalding Andreolle and Susanne Berthier Foglar
- pt. 3. Science and political discourse
- A 'republic of science'? The role of science in Thomas Jefferson's imperial vision / Mehdi Achouche
- Scientific rhetoric and the American empire / Jean-Marie Ruiz
- pt. 4. Popularising science
- The first dinosaurs and changing museum paradigms in America / Mark Meigs
- Popular evolutionism and the ethics of progress / Richard Somerset
- pt. 5. Science and spirituality
- The edifying fold : discomfort with technology in the Jesuits' Letters from America / Frederic Dorel
- Questioning the empire of science : John Muir's epistemological modesty / Jean-Daniel Collomb.