Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science Across the British Empire, 1800-1970

by Brett M. Bennett and Joseph M. Hodge

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230252281
• ISBN13: 9780230252288
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"