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Science and Empire

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

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Editors:
  1. Brett M. Bennett

    1. University of Western Sydney, Australia

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  2. Joseph M. Hodge

    1. Department of History, West Virginia University, USA

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Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  4. Knowledge and Networks at the End of Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming

      • Gregory A. Barton
      Pages 163-186

    3. ‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’: The Making of the Colonial Research Service

      • Sabine Clarke
      Pages 187-208

    4. The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire

      • Joseph M. Hodge
      Pages 209-231

    5. The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of ‘Environmental Authority’ in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939–59

      • Adrian Howkins
      Pages 232-252

    6. Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917–53

      • Christian Jennings
      Pages 253-274

    7. Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria

      • Matthew M. Heaton
      Pages 275-296

    8. The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service

      • Jennifer Gold
      Pages 297-320

  5. Epilogue

    1. Epilogue

      • Michael Worboys
      Pages 321-326

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 327-346
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“This fine volume edited by Brett M. Bennett and Joseph M. Hodge does much to make a strong case for the utility of placing empire within broader history of science studies contexts. It also provides an extremely useful set of readings suitable for anyone with interests in empire, as well as an excellent source for any course exploring science and imperialism. I recommend the book highly.” (James Beattie, Environmental Values, Vol. 22 (3), August, 2016)

'This book can be recommended to all students of the history and geography of empire and science, and its accessible style and engaging presentation will ensure that it can be useful to students and scholars of all levels of experience.' - Journal of Historical Geography, Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Brett M. Bennett

  • Department of History, West Virginia University, USA

    Joseph M. Hodge

About the editors

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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