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Nature and the Godly Empire
Author | : Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521848369 |
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A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
Author | : J. Beattie |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230309067 |
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A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Science and Empire
Author | : B. Bennett,J. Hodge |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230320826 |
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Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire
Author | : Karen Jones |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317188490 |
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Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social and symbolical meanings. By placing these meanings at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in this volume extend the study of the gun beyond the confines of military history and the examination of its impact on specific colonial encounters. By bringing cultural perspectives to bear on this most pervasive of technological artefacts, the contributors explore the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and broad processes of social change. In so doing, they contribute to a fuller understanding of some of the most significant consequences of British and American imperial expansions. Not the least original feature of the book is its global frame of reference. Bringing together historians of different periods and regions, A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire overcomes traditional compartmentalisations of historical knowledge and encourages the drawing of novel and illuminating comparisons across time and space.
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
Author | : James Delbourgo,Nicholas Dew |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135899097 |
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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection 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, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
Asian Empire and British Knowledge
Author | : U. Hillemann |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230246751 |
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British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.
Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission
Author | : Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004399617 |
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This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.
Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
Author | : Douglas Hamilton,John McAleer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192586551 |
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as sources of rare commodities - meant that islands across the globe played prominent parts in imperial consolidation and expansion. This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail. Thematically related chapters explore the geographical, topographical, economic, and social diversity of the islands that comprised a large component of the British Empire in an era of rapid and significant expansion. Although many of these islands were isolated rocky outcrops, they acted as crucial nodal points, providing critical assistance for ships and men embarked on the long-distance voyages that characterised British overseas activities in the period. Intercontinental maritime trade, colonial settlement, and scientific exploration and experimentation would have been impossible without these oceanic islands. They also acted as sites of strategic competition, contestation, and conflict for rival European powers keen to outstrip each other in developing and maintaining overseas markets, plantations, and settlements. The importance of islands outstripped their physical size, the populations they sustained, or their individual economic contribution to the imperial balance sheet. Standing at the centre of maritime routes of global connectivity, islands offer historians of the British Empire fresh perspectives on the intercontinental communication, commercial connections, and territorial expansion that characterised that empire.