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Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 - Britain and the World
Brett M Bennett
Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 - Britain and the World
Brett M Bennett
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.
368 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 13, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780230252288 |
Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
Genre | Cultural Region > British Isles |
Pages | 346 |
Dimensions | 144 × 221 × 25 mm · 612 g |
Editor | Bennett, B. |
Editor | Hodge, J. |