Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970 (Britain and the World)

Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Abbreviations......Page 10 List of Tables and Figures......Page 11 Preface......Page 12 Notes on Contributors......Page 15 Part I: Historiography and Overview......Page 20 1 Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship......Page 22 2 The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of ‘British’ Networks of Science, 1800–1970......Page 49 Part II: Knowledge and Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries ......Page 64 3 Science and the British Empire from its Beginnings to 1850......Page 66 4 A Network Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855–1885 ......Page 87 5 Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia......Page 108 6 ‘A Science of Our Own’: Nineteenth Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science......Page 129 7 Between the Nation and the World: J.T. Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 159 Part III: Knowledge and Networks at the End of Empire......Page 180 8 Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming......Page 182 9 ‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’: The Making of the Colonial Research Service......Page 206 10 The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire......Page 228 11 The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of ‘Environmental Authority’ in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile,1939–59......Page 251 12 Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research inEast Africa, 1917–53......Page 272 13 Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria......Page 294 14 The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the British ColonialForestry Service ......Page 316 Epilogue......Page 340 Bibliography......Page 346 Index......Page 361 This new≤survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists.≤As they≤chart the≤evolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature NL-ZmNBD This new survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published, examining the interconnections between science, the British Empire, and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced, circulated and legitimated, critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. It offers a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits, including networks of agronomists, anatomists, botanists, foresters, geologists, marine biologists, oceanographers and physicists. As they chart the evolving practices, strategies, theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists, technical advisers, imperial administrators, and native peoples in Africa, Australia, Britain, India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature, as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature. Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.