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Author Dubow, Saul

Title A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony -- Of Special Colonial Interest: The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas -- Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism -- Science and South Africanism -- A Commonwealth of Knowledge -- Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge?
Summary This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowled
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index
Notes English
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Subject White people -- Race identity -- South Africa
National characteristics, South African.
Nationalism -- South Africa -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- South Africa -- History
Science -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History
Science -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Intellectual life
National characteristics, South African
Nationalism
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Race relations
Science -- Political aspects
Science -- Social aspects
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 19th century
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125489
South Africa -- Intellectual life
Subject South Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191516344
0191516341
9781429459532
1429459530
9786610845255
6610845255
1280845252
9781280845253