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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817351503321

Autore

Dubow Saul

Titolo

A commonwealth of knowledge : 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

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

305.83/936

Soggetti

Whites - 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

Previously issued in print: 2006.

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

Examining the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa, this text explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to



nationhood.