Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945

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Series Page
Title Page
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Contents
List of Figures
Contributors
1. Science and Empires: Past and Present Questions
PART 1: Knowledge Production on Imperial Landscapes
	2. Putting Ships to New Uses: “Floating Gardens” and the Circulation of Knowledge at Sea and on Land, 1790-1800
	3. Regional Knowledge in the Empire: Tobacco Cultivation during the Napoleonic Era
	4. Global Communication and Construction of Knowledge in French Naval Medicine: Pierre-François Kéraudren and the Health Department of French Navy, 1813-1845
	5. Positioning the North: Making British Geographical Knowledge of Australia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
	6. Maps and the Man on the Spot: Bio-geographies, Knowledge, and Authority around and about the Zambezi
	7. The Global Dimensions of the Rome Zoological Garden and Italian Colonialism in Africa
PART 2: Knowledge Production at Imperial Crossroads
	8. The Astronomical Observations of Bento Sanches Dorta in Rio de Janeiro, 1781-1787
	9. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire’s Writings between European and Brazilian Audiences, 1816-1850
	10. Commercial Statistics of Late Qing China between Global Interest and Local Irrelevance, 1860-1910
	11. Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894-1920
Index