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| Genre/Form: | Kongress Los Angeles (Calif., 2005) |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Delbourgo; Nicholas Dew; History of Science Society. Meeting |
| ISBN: | 9780415961264 0415961262 9780415961271 0415961270 9780203933848 0203933842 |
| OCLC Number: | 123485478 |
| Notes: | Outgrowth of a session at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, held in Cambridge, Mass., in 2003. Cf. acknowledgments. |
| Description: | xiv, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : The far side of the ocean / James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew -- Section I: Networks of circulation -- 1. Controlling knowledge : navigation, cartography, and secrecy in the early modern Spanish Atlantic / Alison Sandman -- 2. Vers la ligne : circulating measurements around the French Atlantic / Nicholas Dew -- 3. Knowing the ocean : Benjamin Franklin and the circulation of Atlantic knowledge / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Section II: Writing the American book of nature -- 4. A new world of secrets : occult philosophy in the sixteenth-century Atlantic / Ralph Bauer -- 5. Tropical empiricism : making medical knowledge in Colonial Brazil / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- 6. American climate and the civilization of nature / Jan Golinski -- Section III: Itineraries of collection -- 7. Empiricism in the Spanish Atlantic world / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- 8. Fruitless botany : Joseph de Jussieu's South American odyssey / Neil Safier -- 9. Atlantic competitions : botany in the eighteenth-century Spanish empire / Daniela Bleichmar -- Section IV: Contested powers -- 10. The electric machine in the American garden / James Delbourgo -- 11. Diasporic African sources of enlightenment knowledge / Susan Scott Parrish -- 12. Mesmerism in Saint Domingue : occult knowledge and Vodou on the eve of the Haitian Revolution / François Regourd -- Afterword : Science, global capitalism and the state / Margaret C. Jacob. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew. |
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"It is a pleasure to welcome this collection of new essays on the changing role of science in the Atlantic World...The editors have sought to recover stories of navigation, conquest, and settlement that earlier historians have sought to simplify; and in this, they have admirably succeeded...This book will be a useful addition to the libraries of all who study science and empire." -- Roy McLeod, Isis, the Journal of the History of Science Society 'Dew and Delbourgo have managed to square the circle of edited collections: bringing together a diverse set of essays to target an important historiographical issue.' -- British Journal for the History of Science 'Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is one of those rare collections that offers not just new answers but changes the very questions for research. Its collaborative and comprehensive portrayal of many Atlantics and the multiple forms of knowledge they generated will ensure that neither the history of science nor Atlantic history will ever look the same again.' -- David Armitage, co-editor of The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 'This superb collection of essays teaches us that the origins of early modern science and the Atlantic expansion cannot be rent asunder. This book puts the periphery-center paradigm on its head.' -- Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, author of Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World 'Science and Empire in the Atlantic World sets a new basis for research and teaching in the intellectual history of the interactions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It deserves the attention of every scholar of the cultural history of Imperialism.' -- Richard Drayton, author of Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World 'In this impressive and cleverly-organized group of essays, historians of the sciences explore the systems of negotiation, exploration, and circulation that developed in the Americas and Atlantic networks in the three centuries after European invasion and settlement. The result is a startling reorientation of familiar maps of knowledge, technique, and power. The richly documented studies make for indispensable reading.' --Simon Schaffer, co-editor of The Sciences in Enlightened Europe "This volume serves as an excellent introduction to the application of recent work in the history of science to the world of the colonial Atlantic Empires as sites of knowledge gathering." - Jordan Kellman, International Journal of Maritime History, December 2010 (Volume XXII, No. 2) Read more...
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- Science -- Social aspects -- America -- History.
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