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Language: en
Pages: 502
Pages: 502
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-14 - Publisher: JHU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:
How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (
Language: en
Pages: 134
Pages: 134
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-01 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its co
Language: en
Pages: 255
Pages: 255
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin b
Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-13 - Publisher: Springer
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
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulati
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-26 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from It
