A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.
A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.
A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N305.83936/ 2
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English
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viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Literary and scientific institutions in the nineteenth-century Cape colony -- 2. 'Of special colonial interest' : the Cape Monthly Magazine and the circulation of ideas -- 3. Colonialism, imperialism, constitutionalism -- 4. Science and South Africanism -- 5. A commonwealth of knowledge -- 6. Con...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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"In this book, Saul Dubow addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Hinged on the tension between the presumed universality of colonial knowledge and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fa...
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A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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N305.83936/ 2
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74VKJDogr6dM
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0199296634 (alk. paper)
9780199296637 (alk. paper)
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305.83936
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991022064679702626
