William Beinart, Saul Dubow

The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837088
• ISBN-10: 1108837085
• Artikelnr.: 60895570

Autorenporträt

William Beinart is Emeritus Professor, St Antony's College, University of Oxford and former Director of the African Studies Centre. His publications include The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003), Environment and Empire (2007) with Lotte Hughes, Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape (2011) with Luvuyo Wotshela, African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health (2013) with Karen Brown and Rights to Land (2017) with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
1. Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century
2. Scientific Governance and Colonial Institutions, c.1800-1870
3: Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870-1902
4. Science, Reconstruction, and the Imagining of the First 'New' South Africa, 1902-1929
5. The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930-1948
6. The Republic of Science, 1948-1990
7. Big Science and Indigenous Knowledge: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the African Renaissance
Afterword.