Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (New Directions in American History)

by JamesDelbourgo (Editor), NicholasDew (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $42.46

  Examines the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. This work captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism.