Book ID: CBB000772117

A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa, 1820--2000 (2006)

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Dubow, Saul (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: viii + 296 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines.” (from the publisher)


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Review Snedegar, Keith (2007) Review of "A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa, 1820--2000". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 868). unapi

Review Hoad, Neville (2007) Review of "A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa, 1820--2000". Victorian Studies (p. 699). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mullaney, Thomas Shawn
Beattie, James
Adrienne Edgar
Henry, Matthew
Kent, Michael
Lynn Hollen Lees
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and race
Great Britain, colonies
Race
Colonialism
Ethnicity
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
South Africa
China
India
Australia
Brazil
Tajikistan
Institutions
Cape Town. Royal Observatory
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