Science and Empire

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Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970, Britain and the World

ISBN: 0230252281
ISBN 13: 9780230252288
Herausgeber: B Bennett/J Hodge
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 346 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

A detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of the development and function of scientific networks in the British Empire The book’s structure provides a new argument that key administrators and officials tried to create a specifically ‚British‘ world-system of science during the mid nineteenth through the mid twentieth century Authors include two pioneers in the history of science and empire: John Gascoigne and Michael Worboys Suitable for teaching – divides the rise and reconfiguration of scientific networks into three major periods: before 1850, from 1850 to 1940, and from 1940 to 1970

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

GREGORY BARTON Permanent Research Fellow in Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia BRETT M. BENNETT Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Western Sydney, Australia SABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK MATTHEW M. HEATON Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA JOSEPH M. HODGE Associate Professor of Modern British and British Imperial History, West Virginia University, USA JOHN GASCOIGNE Professor of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PETER H. HOFFENBERG Associate Professor of History, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA ADRIAN HOWKINS Assistant Professor of International Environmental History, Colorado State University, USA CHRISTIAN JENNINGS Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA TAMSON PIETSCH Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New College, University of Oxford, UK RAJIVE TIWARI Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, USA MICHAEL WORBOYS Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Manchester University, UK

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