Dorit Brixius

Creolised Science (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009200455
• Artikelnr.: 70913268

Autorenporträt

Dorit Brixius is a historian of global science and medicine interested in eighteenth-century botany and France's Indian Ocean colonies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The limits of French colonial visions and science
2. The acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China
3. Agriculture and everyday knowledge
4. Enslaved people as knowledge carriers
5. The cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia
6. Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge
Conclusion.