Book ID: CBB036062764

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya (2022)

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Fleetwood, Lachlan (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 294
Language: English

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and environmental order. Lachlan Fleetwood traces untold stories of scientific measurement and collecting, indigenous labour and expertise, and frontier-making to provide the first comprehensive account of the East India Company's imperial entanglements with the Himalaya. To make the Himalaya knowable and globally comparable, he demonstrates that it was necessary to erase both dependence on indigenous networks and scientific uncertainties, offering an innovative way of understanding science's global history, and showing how geographical features like mountains can serve as scales for new histories of empire.

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Authors & Contributors
Ashby, Jack
Bergwik, Staffan
Craciun, Adriana
Darragh, Thomas A.
Fleetwood, Lachlan
Kapoor, R. C.
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Archives of Natural History
Historical Records of Australian Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Brill
Fordham University Press
Harper Collins
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Concepts
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Collectors and collecting
Colonialism
Science and politics
Natural history
People
Austen, Jane
Bullock, William
Colenso, William
Everest, George
Hedin, Sven
Lambton, William
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
16th century
17th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Australia
Himalayan Mountains (Nepal)
India
Tibet
China
France
Institutions
East India Company (English)
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Society of London
Observatoire de Paris
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