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Titre(s) : Beyond science and empire [Texte imprimé] : circulation of knowledge in an age of global empires, 1750-1945 / edited by Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Thomás A. S. Haddad, and Kapil Raj
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-201 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000
Lien à la collection : Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the
circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields
of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology.
The book will interest scholars and undergraduate and graduate students concerned
with the connections between the history of science, imperial history, and global
history"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Silva, Matheus Alves Duarte da. Éditeur scientifique
Haddad, Thomás A. S. Éditeur scientifique
Raj, Kapil. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Impérialisme
Sciences et société
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.450 9 (23e éd.) = Sciences (sociologie) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367410728. - ISBN 0367410729 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473193574
Notice n° :
FRBNF47319357
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Science and empires : past and present questions / Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva,
Thomás A. S. Haddad, and Kapil Raj ; Putting Ships to new uses : "floating gardens"
and the circulation of knowledge at sea and on land, 1790-1800 / Jordan Goodman ;
Regional knowledge in the empire : tobacco cultivation during the Napoleonic era /
Alexander van Wickeren ; Global communication and construction of knowledge in French
naval medicine : Pierre François Kéraudren and the Health Department of French Navy,
1813-1845 / Daniel Dutra Coelho Braga ; Positioning the North : making British geographical
Knowledge of Australia in the mid-nineteenth Century / Johanna Skurnik ; Maps and
the man on the spot : bio-geographies, knowledge, and authority around and about the
Zambezi / Elizabeth Haines ; The global dimensions of the Rome Zoological Garden
and Italian colonialism in Africa / Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli ; The astronomical
observations of Bento Sanches Dorta in Rio de Janeiro, 1781-1787 / Heloisa Meireles
Gesteira ; Auguste de Saint-Hilaire's writings between European and Brazilian audiences,
1816-1850 / Lorelai Kury ; Commercial statistics of Late Qing China between global
interest and local irrelevance, 1860-1910 / Stacie A. Kent ; Plague and the global
emergence of microbiology, 1894-1920 / Shiori Nosaka and Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva.