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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 05 May 2024

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2021

The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed

• Publisher : Lulu.com
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• Release Date : 05 May 2024

Establishing the context within which organizers who staged spectacular popular science exhibitions for urban middle-class audiences and the physicians as well as activists who provided commentaries functioned; this dissertation is

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 02 December 2020

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 05 September 2022

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. Focusing on what happens to knowledge at national borders, rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 02 August 2022

Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 2021

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
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• Release Date : 17 March 2003

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2010

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war but its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 24 April 2018

Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative