Science and empire: knowledge and networks of science across the British Empire, 1800-1970

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 therise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists. BRETT M. BENNETT received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Since January 2011, he has been a Lecturer in Modern Historyat the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He specializes in the environmental and scientific histories of British imperialism in the Indian Ocean region in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. His publications include articles in 'Itinerario', 'Environment and History', the 'International Review of Social History', the 'Journal of the History of Biology', and the 'British Scholar Journal'. JOSEPH M. HODGE is an Associate Professor of Modern British and British Imperial History and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, USA. He is author of 'Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism', published in 2007 by Ohio University Press, and he has also published several articles in leading historical journals including the 'Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History', the 'Journal of Southern African Studies', 'Agricultural History', and the 'Journal of Modern European History'. INDICE: 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 Mediaof 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 tothe Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service; 'S. Clarke - 'TheHybridity 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 MarineFisheries 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-25228-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 13/09/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés