Nature's government (Science, imperial Britain, and the «improvement» of the world)
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780300059762
- ISBN10 0300059760
- Tipo LIBRO
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Nature's government (Science, imperial Britain, and the «improvement» of the world)
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Nature's Government is an attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial.