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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 scie ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443825962 1443825964 1283141744 9781283141741 |