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Routledge Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (New Directions in American History)

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Product Description Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery. Review "It is a pleasure to welcome this collection of new essays on the changing role of science in the Atlantic World....The editors have sought to recover stories of navigation, conquest, and settlement that earlier historians have sought to simplify; and in this, they have admirably succeeded....This book will be a useful addition to the libraries of all who study science and empire." Roy McLeod, Isis, the Journal of the History of Science Society Dew and Delbourgo have managed to square the circle of edited collections: bringing together a diverse set of essays to target an important historiographical issue. British Journal for the History of Science'Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is one of those rare collections that offers not just new answers but changes the very questions for research. Its collaborative and comprehensive portrayal of many Atlantics and the multiple forms of knowledge they generated will ensure that neither the history of science nor Atlantic histor About the Author James Delbourgo is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at McGill University. He is the author of A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Nicholas Dew is Assistant Professor of History at McGill University, where he teaches early modern European history and history of science. He is the author of Orientalism in Louis XIV’s France.

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Brand: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415961262
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Discovery & Exploration
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Release Date: 16 November 2007
Listed Since: 26 April 2007

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