Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire (Empires in Perspective)

by SarahIrving (Author), Sarah Irving (Author)

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  2016

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  Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.