Introduction / Roy MacLeod Colonial world as a geological metaphor: strata(gems) of empire in victorian Canada / Suzanne Zeller Enlightened mineralogists: mining knowledge in colonial Brazil, 1750-1825 / Silvia Figueiroa and Clarete Da Silva Science and state building in late colonial and postcolonial Africa, 1930-1970 / Christophe Bonneuil Iberian vision: science and empire in the framework of a universal monarchy, 1500-1800 / Juan Pimentel The colonial machine: French science and colonization in the Ancien Regime / James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd Ordering the world for Europe: science as intelligence and information as seen from the northern periphery / Sverker Sorlin Science, technology and the Spanish colonial experience in the nineteenth century / Alberto Elena and Javier Ordonez. Shaping of Latin American museums of natural history, 1850-1990 / Maria Margaret Lopes and Irina Podgorny Colonial encounters and the forging of new knowledge and national identities: Great Britain and India, 1760-1850 / Kapil Raj Acclimatizing the world: a history of the paradigmatic colonial science / Michael A. Osborne Enlightenment in an imperial context: local science in the late-eighteenth-century Hispanic world / Antonio LaFuente. Racism and medical science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the mid- to late nineteenth century / Harriet Deacon Colonial world as mission and mandate: leprosy and empire, 1900-1940 / Michael Worboys Locality in the history of science: colonial science, technoscience, and indigenous knowledge / David Wade Chambers and Richard Gillespie Reconstructing India: disunity in the science and technology for development discourse, 1900-1947 / Deepak Kumar. Bio-prospecting or bio-privacy: intellectual property rights and biodiversity in a colonial and postcolonial context / John Merson. |
