Enlightened Zeal : The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670-1870 /

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Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as...

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Autor principal: Binnema, Ted, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hudson's Bay Company.
Hudson's Bay Company > Research > History.
Hudson's Bay Company > History.
Science > Social aspects.
Science and industry.
Research.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Sciences > Aspect social > Nord-Ouest canadien.
Sciences et industrie > Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire.
Science > Social aspects > Northwest, Canadian.
Science and industry > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Canada > Canadian Northwest.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • pt. I The Hudson's Bay Company and Science, 1670
  • 1821
  • 2. "A Profound Secret": The Adventurers and the Fellows from the 1660s to 1768
  • 3. "Desirous to Encourage Science": The Transit of Venus of 1769 and the Hudson's Bay Company's Collaboration with the Royal Society, 1768
  • 1774
  • 4. "Amends for the Narrow Prejudices": The Hudson's Bay Company and Science in an Era of Competitive Expansion, 1774-1821
  • pt. II The Hudson's Bay Company and Science, 1821
  • 1870
  • 5. "Benevolent Intentions": The Hudson's Bay Company, the Royal Navy, and the Search for the Northwest Passage, 1818-1855
  • 6. "The Liberal Spirit": David Douglas, Edinburgh, and the Douglas Legacy, 1823
  • 1870
  • 7. "Disinterested Kindness": The Hudson's Bay Company and North American-Based Science, 1821
  • 1870
  • 8. "Knowing the Liberal Disposition": The Hudson's Bay Company and the Smithsonian Institution, 1855
  • 1868.

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