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Science and empire in the nineteenth century : a journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress /

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 geop...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Delmas, Catherine, Vandamme, Christine, Andréolle, Donna Spalding
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
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505 0 |a pt. 1. Space and structures of power -- Charles Doughty's quest and crusade in Arabia deserta / Catherine Delmas -- 'A perfect map of Palestine' (1872-1880) : biblical geography, intelligence and prophecy / Stéphanie Prévost -- Cartography in the age of science : the mapping of Ireland in the nineteenth century / Valérie Morisson -- pt. 2. Classifying plant and human species -- Western science, colonisation and reification : a case study of the utilitarian use of botany in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon / Christine Vandamme -- The discourse of empiricism and the legitimization of empire / Anne Le Guellec -- Skeletons in the cupboard : imperial science and the collection and museumization of Indigenous remains / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick -- Science and the American empire : the American school of anthropology and the justification of expansionism / Donna Spalding Andréolle and Susanne Berthier Foglar -- pt. 3. Science and political discourse -- A 'republic of science'? The role of science in Thomas Jefferson's imperial vision / Mehdi Achouche -- Scientific rhetoric and the American empire / Jean-Marie Ruiz -- pt. 4. Popularising science -- The first dinosaurs and changing museum paradigms in America / Mark Meigs -- Popular evolutionism and the ethics of progress / Richard Somerset -- pt. 5. Science and spirituality -- The edifying fold : discomfort with technology in the Jesuits' Letters from America / Frédéric Dorel -- Questioning the empire of science : John Muir's epistemological modesty / Jean-Daniel Collomb. 
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