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



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Autore: Dubow Saul Visualizza persona
Titolo: A commonwealth of knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / / Saul Dubow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
Disciplina: 305.83/936
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: South Africa Race relations
South Africa Politics and government 19th century
South Africa Politics and government 20th century
South Africa Intellectual life
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
Titolo autorizzato: A commonwealth of knowledge  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-383-04404-X
1-280-84525-2
0-19-151634-1
1-4294-5953-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777874003321
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