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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Ser
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface: tribute to Patrick Harries (1950-2016); 1 Science between Africa and Europe: creating knowledge and connecting worlds (introduction); Part I Mapping and exploring; 2 Peter Kolb and the circulation of knowledge about the Cape of Good Hope; 3 A naturalist's career: Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857); 4 'Nothing but love for natural history and my desire to help your Museum'? Ludwig Krebs's transcontinental collecting partnership with Hinrich Lichtenstein |
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5 The African travels of Hans Schinz: biological transfer and the academisation and popularisation of (African) Botany in ZurichPart II Knowledge practices between colonial and local actors; 6 Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee: one work's significance for European knowledge production about the Asante Empire; 7 Tropical soldiers? New definitions of military strength in the colonial context (1884-1914); 8 Disease at the confluence of knowledge: kifafa and epilepsy in Ulanga (Tanzania); 9 Standards and standardisations: the history of a malaria vaccine candidate (SPf66) in Tanzania |
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Part III International discourses, transnational circulations of knowledge10 The politics and production of history on the birth of archaeology at the Cape (1827-2015); 11 Davos of Ghana? local, national and international perspectives on tuberculosis treatment and control (ca. 1920-1965); 12 When economics went overseas: epistemic problems in the macroeconomic analysis of late colonial Africa; Index |
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Print version record |
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Science -- Europe -- History
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Science -- Africa -- History
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Scientists, Foreign -- Africa -- History
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Scientists -- Europe -- History
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Science
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Scientists
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Scientists, Foreign
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Africa
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lengwiler, Martin
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Penn, Nigel
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| ISBN |
9781351232661 |
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1351232665 |
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9781351232654 |
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1351232657 |
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9781351232647 |
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1351232649 |
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9781351232678 |
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1351232673 |
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