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" Relocating modern science : "
Kapil Raj.
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558000
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Kapil Raj
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Relocating modern science : : circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900\ Kapil Raj.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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0230238505
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: 0230507085
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Introduction -- Surgeons, fakirs, merchants and craftsmen : making L'Empereur's Jardin in early modern South Asia -- Circulation and the emergence of modern mapping : Great Britain and early colonial India, 1764-1820 -- Refashioning civilities, engineering trust : William Jones, Indian intermediaries, and the production of reliable legal knowledge in late-eighteenth-century Bengal -- British Orientalism in the early nineteenth century, or globalism versus universalism -- Defusing diffusionism : the institutionaliztion of modern science education in early-nineteenth-century Bengal -- When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion : Relocations.
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Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically-ordered case-studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial"Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically-ordered case-studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial"Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically-ordered case-studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial",,,,,"Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyRelocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyof science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyRelocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyof science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyRelocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the historyof science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.Read less
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