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Author(s): James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew
ISBN(s): 9780415961264, 0415961262
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.13 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415961262
ISBN 13: 9780415961264
Author: James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World 1st Table of contents:

SECTION I: Networks of Circulation

CHAPTER 1: Controlling Knowledge

  • Restricting Knowledge: Secrecy in Theory and Practice

  • Different Types of Knowledge

  • Gathering and Communicating Knowledge

  • Notes

CHAPTER 2: Vers la ligne

  • The Atlantic between the Local and the Universal

  • Cassini’s Grand Design

  • Scientific Travel Before Imperial Networks

  • Richer’s Pendulum

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

CHAPTER 3: Knowing the Ocean

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

SECTION II: Writing the American Book of Nature

CHAPTER 4: A New World of Secrets

  • Introduction

  • Secret New Worlds

  • Walter Ralegh and the “Golden King” of Manoa

  • Notes

CHAPTER 5: Tropical Empiricism

  • Medical Books: Paradise Lost

  • Medicine in Dutch Brazil

  • The Barber-Surgeons

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

CHAPTER 6: American Climate and the Civilization of Nature

  • Mapping the New World’s Weather

  • Civilizing the American Climate

  • Climate and American Destiny

  • Notes

SECTION III: Itineraries of Collection

CHAPTER 7: Empiricism in the Spanish Atlantic World

  • Transforming the New World

  • A Chamber of Knowledge

  • Joining Theory and Practice

  • Instructing Pilots

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

CHAPTER 8: Fruitless Botany

  • Global Networks, Local Knowledge, Unreliable Shipping and Handling

  • Canelos: Botanizing in the Land of El Dorado

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

CHAPTER 9: Atlantic Competitions

  • Rediscovering the Empire: The Search for Natural Commodities

  • Natural Commodities in Circulation

  • Colonial Projects: Peripheries as Centers

  • Notes

SECTION IV: Contested Powers

CHAPTER 10: The Electric Machine in the American Garden

  • Electricity in Eden

  • The Province of Enlightenment

  • Revolutionary Powers

  • Epilog: Kasum

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

CHAPTER 11: Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge

  • Notes

CHAPTER 12: Mesmerism in Saint Domingue

  • Chastenet de Puységur and the Introduction of Mesmerism in Saint Domingue

  • The Scientific Controversy and Its Developments

  • Mesmerism and Vodou: Atlantic Cultural Cross-Fertilization?

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