Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science Across the British Empire, 1800-1970 (Britain and the World)

Adrian Howkins, Brett M. Bennett, Christian Jennings, Gregory A. Barton, Jennifer Gold, John Gascoigne, Joseph M. Hodge, Matthew M. Heaton, Michael Worboys, Peter H. Hoffenberg, Rajive Tiwari, Sabine Clarke, and Tamson Pietsch.

ISBN 10: 0230252281 / ISBN 13: 9780230252288

Published by Palgrave, 2011

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2011 Palgrave hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition.

Contents:

1 'Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship' by Joseph M. Hodge,
2 'The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science, 1800-1970' by Brett M. Bennett,
3 'Science and the British Empire from its Beginnings to 1850' by John Gascoigne,
4 'A Network Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855-1885' by Brett M. Bennett,
5 'Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia' by Rajive Tiwari,
6 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science' by Peter H. Hoffenberg,
7 'Between the Nation and the World: J.T. Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth Century' by Tamson Pietsch,
8 'Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming' by Gregory A. Barton,
9 'The Chance to Send 'Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service' by Sabine Clarke,
10 'The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire' by Joseph M. Hodge,
11 'The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-59' by Adrian Howkins,
12 'Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917-53' by Christian Jennings,
13 'Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria' by Matthew M. Heaton,
14 'The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service' by Jennifer Gold.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science Across the British Empire, 1800-1970 (Britain and the World)
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230252281
• ISBN 13: 9780230252288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

GREGORY BARTON Permanent Research Fellow in Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia BRETT M. BENNETT Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Western Sydney, Australia SABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK MATTHEW M. HEATON Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA JOSEPH M. HODGE Associate Professor of Modern British and British Imperial History, West Virginia University, USA JOHN GASCOIGNE Professor of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PETER H. HOFFENBERG Associate Professor of History, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA ADRIAN HOWKINS Assistant Professor of International Environmental History, Colorado State University, USA CHRISTIAN JENNINGS Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA TAMSON PIETSCH Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New College, University of Oxford, UK RAJIVE TIWARI Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, USA MICHAEL WORBOYS Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Manchester University, UK