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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Delmas, Catherine, Vandamme, Christine, Andréolle, Donna Spalding
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Temas:
1800-1899
Science > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Imperialism and science.
Science > History > 19th century.
Sciences > Aspect social > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Impérialisme et sciences.
Sciences > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Social & cultural history.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Impact of science & technology on society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Imperialism and science
Science
Science > Social aspects
Fremdbild
Imperialismus
Wissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung
Aufsatzsammlung.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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