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Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848369
A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.
Author : J. Beattie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230309067
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Author : B. Bennett,J. Hodge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230320826
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 : Karen Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317188490
Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social and symbolical meanings. By placing these meanings at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in this volume extend the study of the gun beyond the confines of military history and the examination of its impact on specific colonial encounters. By bringing cultural perspectives to bear on this most pervasive of technological artefacts, the contributors explore the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and broad processes of social change. In so doing, they contribute to a fuller understanding of some of the most significant consequences of British and American imperial expansions. Not the least original feature of the book is its global frame of reference. Bringing together historians of different periods and regions, A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire overcomes traditional compartmentalisations of historical knowledge and encourages the drawing of novel and illuminating comparisons across time and space.
Author : James Delbourgo,Nicholas Dew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135899097
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
Author : U. Hillemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230246751
British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.
Author : Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004399617
This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.
Author : Douglas Hamilton,John McAleer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192586551
Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as sources of rare commodities - meant that islands across the globe played prominent parts in imperial consolidation and expansion. This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail. Thematically related chapters explore the geographical, topographical, economic, and social diversity of the islands that comprised a large component of the British Empire in an era of rapid and significant expansion. Although many of these islands were isolated rocky outcrops, they acted as crucial nodal points, providing critical assistance for ships and men embarked on the long-distance voyages that characterised British overseas activities in the period. Intercontinental maritime trade, colonial settlement, and scientific exploration and experimentation would have been impossible without these oceanic islands. They also acted as sites of strategic competition, contestation, and conflict for rival European powers keen to outstrip each other in developing and maintaining overseas markets, plantations, and settlements. The importance of islands outstripped their physical size, the populations they sustained, or their individual economic contribution to the imperial balance sheet. Standing at the centre of maritime routes of global connectivity, islands offer historians of the British Empire fresh perspectives on the intercontinental communication, commercial connections, and territorial expansion that characterised that empire.
Author : Helen May,Baljit Kaur,Larry Prochner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317144342
Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously transported to and adopted for all three colonies. From the 1820s to the 1850s, this transplantation of Britain’s infant schools to its distant colonies was deemed a radical and enlightened tool that was meant to hasten the conversion of 'heathen' peoples by missionaries to Christianity and to European modes of civilization. The intertwined legacies of European exploration, enlightenment ideals, education, and empire building, the authors argue, provided a springboard for British colonial and missionary activity across the globe during the nineteenth century. Informed by archival research and focused on the shared as well as unique aspects of the infant schools’ colonial experience, Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods illuminates both the pervasiveness of missionary education and the diverse contexts in which its attendant ideals were applied.
Author : Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781316510315
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Author : Tillman W. Nechtman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424684
A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.
Author : Thomas Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498576062
This book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar’s unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar’s peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capable of being controlled and used by Western powers. At the heart of the exploration of Madagascar and its transformation in Western eyes from a strange world to a cash crop colony were missionaries and naturalists who relied upon global experiences to master the island by normalizing the peculiar qualities of Madagascar’s environment. This book reveals how the environment played a dominant role in understanding the island and its people, and how current environmental debates have evolved from earlier policies and discussions about the environment.
Author : Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172364
This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Takashi Ito
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780861933211
London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life,
Author : Peter J. Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226365930
In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, the authors chronicle the major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to contemporary issues in genetics, physics, and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition draws on the latest research and scholarship. It also contains two entirely new chapters: one that explores the impact of computing on the development of science, and another that shows how the West used science and technology as tools for geopolitical expansion. Designed for entry-level college courses and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Making Modern Science presents the history of science not as a series of names and dates, but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships joining science and society.