The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present

by Saul Dubow and William Beinart

Book Overview

South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108940080
• ISBN13: 9781108940085
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"