Science And The British Empire

Author : Sarah Irving
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315219
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire written by Sarah Irving and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Author : B. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230320821
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Empire written by B. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rajesh Kochhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003466406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and the British Empire written by Rajesh Kochhar and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book studies the linkages between science, technology, and institution building in Colonial and modern India. It discusses the advent and growth of modern science in India in terms of a nested three-stage model comprising the colonial-tool stage, the peripheral-native stage, and the Indian response stage, each leading to and coexisting with the next. The book gives an account of developments in various fields of science and education in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of contributions made by Indian individuals, continuing into the twentieth century. It traces the process of colonization and how it led to studies in astronomy, meteorology, natural history, geography, and medicine in India. Rich in archival resources, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of history of education, history of science, colonial education, science and technology studies, South Asian history, Indian history, and history in general"--

Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521550697
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Service of Empire written by John Gascoigne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed intense and dramatic change, placing growing pressure on the British state and increasing its need for expert advice on scientific matters. This was largely provided by Banks, who used his personal networks and systems of patronage to integrate scientific concerns with the complex machinery of government. In this book, originally published in 1998, Gascoigne skilfully draws out the rich detail of Banks' life within the broader political framework, and shows how imperial concerns prompted interest in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. This is an important examination of the British State during a time of change and upheaval.

Author : Richard Drayton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300059762
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Government written by Richard Drayton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the 20th century, led to complex kinds of knowledge.

Author : Sabine Clarke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526131412
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science at the end of empire written by Sabine Clarke and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first account of Britain’s plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies – something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain’s remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. Science at the end of empire explores the practical and also political functions of scientific research and economic advisors for Britain at a moment in which Caribbean governments operated with increasing autonomy and the US was intent on expanding its influence in the region. Britain’s preferred path to industrial development was threatened by an alternative promoted through the Caribbean Commission. The provision of knowledge and expertise became key routes by which Britain and America competed to shape the future of the region, and their place in it.

Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791429198
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Empire written by Zaheer Baber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Author : Catherine Delmas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443825964
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century written by Catherine Delmas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sciences (anthropology, ethnography, cartography, phrenology), which thrived during the period of imperial expansion, racial theories couched in pseudo-scientific discourse, natural sciences, as they are presented in specialised or popularised works, in the press, in travel narratives—at the crossroads of science and literature—in essays, but also in literary texts. Contributors examine such issues as the plurality of scientific discourses, their historicity, the alienating dangers of reduction, fragmentation and reification of the Other, the interaction between scientific discourse and literary discourse, the way certain texts use scientific discourse to serve their imperialist views or, conversely, deconstruct and question them. Such approaches allow for the analysis of the link between knowledge and power as well as of the paradox of a scientific discourse which claims to seek the truth while at the same time both masking and revealing the political and economic stakes of Anglo-saxon imperialism. The analysis of various types of discourse and/or representation highlights the tension between science and ideology, between scientific “objectivity” and propaganda, and stresses the limits of an imperialist epistemology which has sometimes been questioned in more ambiguous or subversive texts.

Author : Lucile H. Brockway
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300091434
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Colonial Expansion written by Lucile H. Brockway and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.

Author : Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131708514
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology, Imperialism, and War written by Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volume Science, Technology, Imperialism And War Interlinks The Concerned Themes To Present A Coherent Analyssis Of The Development Of Related Ideas And Institutions In The Subcontinent. The Chapters On Science, Therefore, Look At The Cognitive And Socio-Historical Aspects Of Science, Relating The Same With The Establishment And Spread Of Imperialism In India; With Its Application To Develop Technologies; And With The Use Of Such Technologies To Fund The Major Preoccupation Of Imperialism - War. Likewise, The Section On Technology Leads The Reader To A Search For Its Very Probable Links With Imperialism And War. The Section On Imperialism Offers Four Themes In The Edited Volume: The First One Deals With Its Theories; The Second With Its Link With Colonialism; And The Third And The Fourth Follow Its Manifestation In The Russian And British Adventures-Chiefly In Central Asia And India. The Depecdence Of Imperialism On War Looms Large. War, The Concluding Theme Of This Exercise, Is The Saturation Point Of Himan Efforts To Subjugate And Dominate Others. The Scholars Writing In This Section Critically Survey The Various Kinds Of War-Conventional, Linited And Nuclear-And A Detailed And Insightful Analysis Of The Cold War By The Editor Completes The Picture. This Volume Will Prove Invaluable To Scholars And Students Of South Asian Studies, History, Political Science And International Relations, And Defence Studies Alike.