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Monopolizing Knowledge
The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 2025
1263 kr
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In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Asian arts, sciences and natural history was established in the City of London, within the corporate headquarters of the East India Company. Funded with taxes from British India and run by the East India Company, this library-museum …
Science in History
Volume 1: The Emergence of Science
Av J. D. Bernal
Häftad, 2010
341 kr
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the …
Science in History
Volume 2: The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
Av J. D. Bernal
Häftad, 2010
246 kr
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the …
Science in History
Volume 3: The Natural Sciences in Our Time
Av J. D. Bernal
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the …
Science in History
Volume 4: The Social Sciences: Conclusion
Av J. D. Bernal
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the …
Science in History
Volume 1: the Emergence of Science
Av J. D. Bernal
E-bok, 2012
171 kr
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J. D. Bernal's monumental work, Science in History, was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the …
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World
Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Häftad, 2025
493 kr
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The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external 'reading' of the head. In the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, popular phrenologists - figures who often hailed from the …
Science on the Roof of the World
Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya
Inbunden, 2022
1362 kr
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When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, …
Science for Governing Japan's Population
Av Aya Homei
Inbunden, 2022
1322 kr
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Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been …
Science for Governing Japan's Population
Av Aya Homei
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been …
Creolised Science
Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific
Inbunden, 2024
1509 kr
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This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities …
Creolised Science
Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities …
The Observatory Experiment
Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire
Av Simon Naylor
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. During the nineteenth century, meteorologists established or converted sites where observers and their instruments could be housed, where …
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
Visions of Chemical Modernity
Inbunden, 2023
1866 kr
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Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. …
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
Visions of Chemical Modernity
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. …
Phrenology in Practice
Science as Self-Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Av Carla Bittel
Inbunden, 2027
1853 kr
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Phrenology - a now dismissed and discredited science - was a popular but contested knowledge system in the nineteenth century. Its promoters touted its benefits, claiming that measuring and analyzing protrusions on the skull could solve life's most vexing personal questions: Who am I? Who should I …
Phrenology in Practice
Science as Self-Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Av Carla Bittel
Häftad, 2027
477 kr
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Phrenology - a now dismissed and discredited science - was a popular but contested knowledge system in the nineteenth century. Its promoters touted its benefits, claiming that measuring and analyzing protrusions on the skull could solve life's most vexing personal questions: Who am I? Who should I …
Applied Science
Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm
Av Robert Bud
Inbunden, 2024
1509 kr
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For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important. Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear? By taking a longue durée approach to British attitudes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Robert …
Applied Science
Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm
Av Robert Bud
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important. Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear? By taking a longue durée approach to British attitudes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Robert …
Death in Beijing
Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China
Av Daniel Asen
Inbunden, 2016
911 kr
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In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under suspicious circumstances constituted a …
Cultivating Commerce
Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815
Inbunden, 2017
1677 kr
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Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they …
Malarial Subjects
Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
Inbunden, 2017
1462 kr
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Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic …
Physics and Psychics
The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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This is the first systematic exploration of the intriguing connections between Victorian physical sciences and the study of the controversial phenomena broadly classified as psychic, occult and paranormal. These phenomena included animal magnetism, spirit-rapping, telekinesis and telepathy. Richard …
The Lighthouse and the Observatory
Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt
Inbunden, 2018
1628 kr
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An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as The Lighthouse, are linked to examine the …
Coal, Steam and Ships
Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas
Inbunden, 2018
634 kr
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Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed empire-wide systems of steam navigation and won or …
Cultivating Commerce
Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not professional botanists, nor were they the social equals of refined amateurs of botany. Nevertheless, they …
The Victorian Palace of Science
Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament
Häftad, 2019
634 kr
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The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction …
The Victorian Palace of Science
Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament
Inbunden, 2017
1593 kr
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The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction …
German Science in the Age of Empire
Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers
Inbunden, 2019
1920 kr
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This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s. It argues that German scientists, lacking in …
German Science in the Age of Empire
Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers
Häftad, 2020
687 kr
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This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s. It argues that German scientists, lacking in …
