Title Science and empire : knowledge and networks of science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 / edited by Brett M. Bennett [and] Joseph M. Hodge

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages) Series Britain and the world Britain and the world. Contents Tables & Figures -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND OVERVIEW -- Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship; J.M. Hodge -- The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science, 1800-1970; B.M. Bennett -- PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES -- Science and the British Empire from its Beginning to 1850; J. Gascoigne -- A Networked Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855-1885; B.M. Bennett -- Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia; R. Tiwari -- 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science; P.H. Hoffenberg -- Between the Nation and the World: JT Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth-Century; T. Pietsch -- PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS AT THE END OF EMPIRE -- Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming; G.A. Barton -- 'The Chance to Send their First Class Men out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service; S. Clarke -- The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire; J.M. Hodge -- The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-59; A. Howkins -- Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917-1953; C. Jennings -- Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria; M.M. Heaton -- The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agricultural Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service; J. Gold -- Epilogue; M. Worboys -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This new€survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists.€As they€chart the€evolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index Notes Print version record Subject Science -- Great Britain -- History Science -- Great Britain -- Historiography Learning and scholarship -- Great Britain -- History Science -- Great Britain -- Societies, etc. -- History Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History Scientists -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History Decolonization -- Great Britain -- History History of science. Colonialism & imperialism. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000. British & Irish history. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. SCIENCE -- History. Science. British colonies Decolonization Imperialism -- Social aspects Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Science Science -- Historiography Science -- Societies, etc. Kolonie Wissenschaft Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Naturvetenskap -- historia -- Storbritannien. Imperialism -- sociala aspekter -- Storbritannien. Vetenskapliga sällskap -- Storbritannien. Vetenskapsmän -- kolonier -- Storbritannien. History of science -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 -- c 1500 onwards to present day. Colonialism & imperialism -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 -- c 1500 onwards to present day. European history -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 -- c 1500 onwards to present day. Science. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056857 Subject Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bennett, Brett M., 1983- editor. Hodge, Joseph Morgan, 1965- editor. ISBN 9780230320826 0230320821

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