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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777874003321

Autore

Dubow Saul

Titolo

A commonwealth of knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / / Saul Dubow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04404-X

1-280-84525-2

0-19-151634-1

1-4294-5953-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

305.83/936

Soggetti

White people - Race identity - South Africa

National characteristics, South African

Nationalism - South Africa - History

Power (Social sciences) - South Africa - History

Science - Social aspects - South Africa - History

Science - Political aspects - South Africa - History

South Africa Race relations

South Africa Politics and government 19th century

South Africa Politics and government 20th century

South Africa Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 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;

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy



and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowled