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Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime
James E. McClellan III
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Description for Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime
Paperback. Saint Domingue (Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. This study of the colon raises questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are grappling with today. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. In this deeply researched and pathbreaking study of the colony, James E. McClellan III first raised his incisive questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are still grappling with today. Long hard to find, the book is ... Read more
How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. In this deeply researched and pathbreaking study of the colony, James E. McClellan III first raised his incisive questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are still grappling with today. Long hard to find, the book is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226514673
SKU
V9780226514673
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About James E. McClellan III
James E. McClellan III is professor of the history of science at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the author of Science and Technology in World History, among several other books.
Reviews for Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime
"That one book can successfully address topics of such importance and bring them to rare clarity, coupled with an unprecedented use of archives, means that it is a major book and its author needs to be placed in the first tier of his generation's European historians." - Eighteenth-Century Studies "By deftly weaving together imperialism and science in the story of ... Read more