Science And Empires

Author : P. Petitjean,Cathérine Jami,A.M. Moulin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401125949

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Science and Empires by P. Petitjean,Cathérine Jami,A.M. Moulin Pdf

SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : National Institute of Science, Technology, and Development Studies (India)
Publisher : Anamika Pub & Distributors
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B3841818

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Science and Empire by National Institute of Science, Technology, and Development Studies (India) Pdf

Author : Andrew Goss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000404852

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The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire by Andrew Goss Pdf

The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides an analytical review essay of the field, while also providing an overview of the topic. There is now a rich literature developed by historians of science as well as scholars of empire demonstrating the numerous ways science and empire grew together, especially between 1600 and 1960.

Author : James Delbourgo,Nicholas Dew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135899097

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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World by James Delbourgo,Nicholas Dew Pdf

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 : Moritz von Brescius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427326

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German Science in the Age of Empire by Moritz von Brescius Pdf

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar,Paula De Vos,Kristin Huffine,Kevin Sheehan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0804776334

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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800 by Daniela Bleichmar,Paula De Vos,Kristin Huffine,Kevin Sheehan Pdf

This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429867927

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Empires of Knowledge by Paula Findlen Pdf

Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in making knowledge, how information traveled, how it was transformed by travel, and who the brokers of this world were. Bringing together an international group of historians of science and medicine, this book looks at the changing relationship between knowledge and community in the early modern period through case studies connecting Europe, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. It explores a landscape of understanding (and misunderstanding) nature through examinations of well-known intelligencers such as overseas missions, trading companies, and empires while incorporating more recent scholarship on the many less prominent go-betweens, such as translators and local experts, which made these networks of knowledge vibrant and truly global institutions. Empires of Knowledge is the perfect introduction to the global history of early modern science and medicine.

Author : Catherine Delmas,Christine Vandamme
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443825962

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Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Delmas,Christine Vandamme Pdf

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 geopolitical frame of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but extends to the rise of the American empire as well. The fields of research tackled are human and social sciences (anthropology, ethnography, cartography, phrenology), which thrived during the period of imperial expansion, racial theories couched in pseudo-scientific discourse, natural sciences, as they are presented in specialised or popularised works, in the press, in travel narratives—at the crossroads of science and literature—in essays, but also in literary texts. Contributors examine such issues as the plurality of scientific discourses, their historicity, the alienating dangers of reduction, fragmentation and reification of the Other, the interaction between scientific discourse and literary discourse, the way certain texts use scientific discourse to serve their imperialist views or, conversely, deconstruct and question them. Such approaches allow for the analysis of the link between knowledge and power as well as of the paradox of a scientific discourse which claims to seek the truth while at the same time both masking and revealing the political and economic stakes of Anglo-saxon imperialism. The analysis of various types of discourse and/or representation highlights the tension between science and ideology, between scientific “objectivity” and propaganda, and stresses the limits of an imperialist epistemology which has sometimes been questioned in more ambiguous or subversive texts.

Author : P. Petitjean,Catherine Jami,A. M. Moulin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401125953

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Science and Empires by P. Petitjean,Catherine Jami,A. M. Moulin Pdf

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0791429202

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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 : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501734137

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Empires by Michael Doyle Pdf

Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies—those called metropoles—on other political societies—called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun. Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines.

Author : Sarah Irving
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315223

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Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire by Sarah Irving Pdf

Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226555027

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Climate in Motion by Deborah R. Coen Pdf

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state—the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws—where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of “scaling”—that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520936310

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Reproducing Empire by Laura Briggs Pdf

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization. Puerto Rico is a perfect lens through which to examine colonialism and globalization because for the past century it has been where the United States has expressed and fine-tuned its attitudes toward its own expansionism. Puerto Rico's history holds no simple lessons for present-day debate over globalization but does unearth some of its history. Reproducing Empire suggests that interventionist discourses of rescue, family, and sexuality fueled U.S. imperial projects and organized American colonialism. Through the politics, biology, and medicine of eugenics, prostitution, and birth control, the United States has justified its presence in the territory's politics and society. Briggs makes an innovative contribution to Puerto Rican and U.S. history, effectively arguing that gender has been crucial to the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, and more broadly, to U.S. expansion elsewhere.