Saul Dubow is professor of history at the University of Sussex. Born in South Africa and educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford, he has written key books on the history of racial segregation and apartheid; the history of scientific racism in South Africa, and the history of colonial science. He has edited several collections and is considered to be a leading authority on race, nationalism and identity in modern South Africa.

...an important and fresh contribution to the historiography. For the first time in very many years, intellectual history takes centre stage and opens up new terrain.

• Introduction ; 1. Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony ; 2. Of Special Colonial Interest': The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas ; 3. Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism ; 4. Science and South Africanism ; 5. A Commonwealth of Knowledge ; 6. Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge? ; Select Bibliography ; Index

Saul Dubow is professor of history at the University of Sussex. Born in South Africa and educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford, he has written key books on the history of racial segregation and apartheid; the history of scientific racism in South Africa, and the history of colonial science. He has edited several collections and is considered to be a leading authority on race, nationalism and identity in modern South Africa.

...an important and fresh contribution to the historiography. For the first time in very many years, intellectual history takes centre stage and opens up new terrain.

• Introduction ; 1. Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony ; 2. Of Special Colonial Interest': The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas ; 3. Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism ; 4. Science and South Africanism ; 5. A Commonwealth of Knowledge ; 6. Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge? ; Select Bibliography ; Index

Saul Dubow is professor of history at the University of Sussex. Born in South Africa and educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford, he has written key books on the history of racial segregation and apartheid; the history of scientific racism in South Africa, and the history of colonial science. He has edited several collections and is considered to be a leading authority on race, nationalism and identity in modern South Africa.

...an important and fresh contribution to the historiography. For the first time in very many years, intellectual history takes centre stage and opens up new terrain.

• Introduction ; 1. Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony ; 2. Of Special Colonial Interest': The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas ; 3. Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism ; 4. Science and South Africanism ; 5. A Commonwealth of Knowledge ; 6. Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge? ; Select Bibliography ; Index