The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

by Saul Dubow and William Beinart

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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"

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