03234nam 2200649Ia 450 991082329200332120240131151146.01-283-14174-41-4438-2596-49786613141743(CKB)3360000000431389(EBL)1114119(OCoLC)816845313(SSID)ssj0000544840(PQKBManifestationID)12233405(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544840(PQKBWorkID)10535710(PQKB)10127468(MiAaPQ)EBC1114119(Au-PeEL)EBL1114119(CaPaEBR)ebr10652899(CaONFJC)MIL314174(OCoLC)678476428(FINmELB)ELB144415(EXLCZ)99336000000043138920101104d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScience and empire in the nineteenth century[electronic resource] a journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress /edited by Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme and Donna Spalding AndreolleNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars20101 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-2559-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHARLES DOUGHTY'S QUEST AND CRUSADE IN ARABIA DESERTA; "A PERFECT MAP OF PALESTINE" (1872-1880); CARTOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE; PART II; WESTERN SCIENCE, COLONISATION AND REIFICATION; THE DISCOURSE OF EMPIRICISM AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF EMPIRE; SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD; SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART III; A "REPUBLIC OF SCIENCE"?; SCIENTIFIC RHETORIC AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; PART IV; THE FIRST DINOSAURS AND CHANGING MUSEUM PARADIGMS IN AMERICA; POPULAR EVOLUTIONISM AND THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS; PART V; THE EDIFYING FOLDQUESTIONING THE EMPIRE OF SCIENCENOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEXThe issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradigm in the discourse on and representations of otherness. The interweaving of scientific and ideological discourses is not limited to the geopolitical frame of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but extends to the rise of the American empire as well. The fields of research tackled are human and social scie...Imperialism and scienceScienceSocial aspectsHistory19th centuryScienceHistory19th centuryImperialism and science.ScienceSocial aspectsHistoryScienceHistory325.3201Delmas Catherine1195542Vandamme Christine1596973Andréolle Donna Spalding903359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823292003321Science and empire in the nineteenth century3918536UNINA