Colonialism And Science

Author : James E. McClellan III
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226514680

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Colonialism and Science by James E. McClellan III Pdf

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world’s richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science—one of only three in the world, at that time. In this deeply researched and pathbreaking study of the colony, James E. McClellan III first raised his incisive questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are still grappling with today. Long considered rare, the book is now back in print in an English-language edition, accompanied by a new foreword by Vertus Saint-Louis, a native of Haiti and a widely-acknowledged expert on colonialism. Frequently cited as the crucial starting point in understanding the Haitian revolution, Colonialism and Science will be welcomed by students and scholars alike. “By deftly weaving together imperialism and science in the story of French colonialism, [McClellan] . . . brings to light the history of an almost forgotten colony.”—Journal of Modern History “McClellan has produced an impressive case study offering excellent surveys of Saint Domingue’s colonial history and its history of science.”—Isis

Author : Roy M. MacLeod,Roy MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226500799

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Nature and Empire by Roy M. MacLeod,Roy MacLeod Pdf

Surveying Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this important new collection looks at roles of science, medicine, and technology during five centuries of colonialism. This thought-provoking history examines the many intersections of science, politics, and culture during colonialism, including the relation between racism and medical science, "exploration" and its potential for wealth, and the perceived differences between indigenous knowledge and European science. Sixteen chapters focus on such topics as intellectual property rights and biodiversity, "acclimatizing" the world, and science and development. Bringing together contributions from scholars of history and science from around the globe, Nature and Empire forges a new path for readers interested in science and society during the modern era.

Author : John Rieder
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819573803

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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction by John Rieder Pdf

This groundbreaking study explores science fiction's complex relationship with colonialism and imperialism. In the first full-length study of the subject, John Rieder argues that the history and ideology of colonialism are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. With original scholarship and theoretical sophistication, he offers new and innovative readings of both acknowledged classics and rediscovered gems. Rider proposes that the basic texture of much science fiction—in particular its vacillation between fantasies of discovery and visions of disaster—is established by the profound ambivalence that pervades colonial accounts of the exotic “other.” Includes discussion of works by Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, George Tomkyns Chesney, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edmond Hamilton, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Henry Kuttner, Alun Llewellyn, Jack London, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, William Morris, Garrett P. Serviss, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, and H. G. Wells.

Author : Amit Prasad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509544431

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Science Studies Meets Colonialism by Amit Prasad Pdf

The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial legacies impact and shape this project have often remained out of sight at the edges of the discipline. In this important book, Amit Prasad seeks to rectify this erasure, demonstrating that problematic idealized imaginaries of science, scientists, and the scientific realm can be traced back to the birth of "modern science" during European colonialism. Such visions of science and technology have undergirded the imagination of the West (and thus of its others), constructing hierarchies of technological innovation and scientific value, but also unexpectedly leaving society vulnerable to contemporary threats of misinformation and conspiracy theories, as has been strikingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from being an indictment of STS, this rigorous book seeks to highlight such concerns to make STS engage more carefully with issues of colonialism and thus to enable readers to understand the rapidly changing global topography of science and technology today and into the future.

Author : Nathan Reingold,Marc Rothenberg
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951P00421735N

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Scientific Colonialism by Nathan Reingold,Marc Rothenberg Pdf

Author : Nicholas Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047864528

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Science, Colonialism, and Ireland by Nicholas Whyte Pdf

This pioneering and accessible study employs a theoretical framework for an understanding of the role of science in Ireland, refuting the assumption that science was an instrument of colonialism.

Author : Helen Tilley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226803470

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Africa as a Living Laboratory by Helen Tilley Pdf

'Africa as a Living Laboratory' is a study of the relationship between imperialism and scientific expertise - environmental medical, racial and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa.

Author : S. Irfan Habib,Zaheer Baber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073872742

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Social History of Science in Colonial India by S. Irfan Habib,Zaheer Baber Pdf

Can science be seen as the flag bearer of the 'civilizing mission' dispelling the darkness of centuries of superstition? Did the installation of new technological systems displace ancient primitive techniques? Rejecting the simplistic notion of transmission of science and technology, this reader argues for a variety of perspectives. Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, it provides an excellent introduction to the world of science and technology in colonial India. Departing from the standard practice of seeing science as a cultural universal, Social History of Science emphasizes the need for redrawing boundaries long taken for granted. It investigates how modern science - considered as a pristine Western cultural import - was reconstituted in the encounter with other ways of knowing and acting on the world. Bringing together some of the finest writings - even rare - on the subject, this volume highlights the multiplicity of historiogaphic positions on colonial science and the changing landscapes for the study of science in South Asia. The contributors approach issues related to science and colonialism from a variety of scientific disciplines. They engage with the drift produced by the entanglement of science and values and the complicity of the scientific project in that of imperialism.

Author : Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 8131708519

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Science, Technology, Imperialism, and War by Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta Pdf

The Volume Science, Technology, Imperialism And War Interlinks The Concerned Themes To Present A Coherent Analyssis Of The Development Of Related Ideas And Institutions In The Subcontinent. The Chapters On Science, Therefore, Look At The Cognitive And Socio-Historical Aspects Of Science, Relating The Same With The Establishment And Spread Of Imperialism In India; With Its Application To Develop Technologies; And With The Use Of Such Technologies To Fund The Major Preoccupation Of Imperialism - War. Likewise, The Section On Technology Leads The Reader To A Search For Its Very Probable Links With Imperialism And War. The Section On Imperialism Offers Four Themes In The Edited Volume: The First One Deals With Its Theories; The Second With Its Link With Colonialism; And The Third And The Fourth Follow Its Manifestation In The Russian And British Adventures-Chiefly In Central Asia And India. The Depecdence Of Imperialism On War Looms Large. War, The Concluding Theme Of This Exercise, Is The Saturation Point Of Himan Efforts To Subjugate And Dominate Others. The Scholars Writing In This Section Critically Survey The Various Kinds Of War-Conventional, Linited And Nuclear-And A Detailed And Insightful Analysis Of The Cold War By The Editor Completes The Picture. This Volume Will Prove Invaluable To Scholars And Students Of South Asian Studies, History, Political Science And International Relations, And Defence Studies Alike.

Author : Laurelyn Whitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139479479

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Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples by Laurelyn Whitt Pdf

At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the survival of indigenous nations. Numerous historians of science have documented the vital role of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science as a part of statecraft, a means of extending empire. This book follows imperialism into the present, demonstrating how pursuit of knowledge of the natural world impacts, and is impacted by, indigenous peoples rather than nation-states. In extractive biocolonialism, the valued genetic resources, and associated agricultural and medicinal knowledge, of indigenous peoples are sought, legally converted into private intellectual property, transformed into commodities, and then placed for sale in genetic marketplaces. Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples critically examines these developments, demonstrating how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western knowledge systems continue to be shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of law.

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791429199

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The Science of Empire by Zaheer Baber Pdf

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Author : Max Liboiron
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021445

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Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron Pdf

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Métis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)—an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land. Liboiron's creative, lively, and passionate text refuses theories of pollution that make Indigenous land available for settler and colonial goals. In this way, their methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible but is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

Author : Jagdish Sinha
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433347

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Science, War and Imperialism by Jagdish Sinha Pdf

This is the first integrated and in-depth study of the state of science during the Second World War in India. Drawing on a variety of sources, it examines the impact of the war on science under colonial conditions and its consequences for India in transition from bondage to freedom.

Author : B. Bennett,J. Hodge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230320826

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Science and Empire by B. Bennett,J. Hodge Pdf

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.

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214214

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Another Reason by Gyan Prakash Pdf

Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation. Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination. But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous. Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.