Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius 1580460151, 9781580460156

Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru 9780822393450

Kathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped official

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Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India 9781107023253, 1107023254

Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalization on

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Mauritius [1 ed.] 9789221113935

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Le Malaise Creole: Ethnic Identity in Mauritius 9781782388753

How does one explain the poverty and marginalization of a group that lives in a remarkably successful economy and peacef

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Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia 1135302030, 9781135302030

This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th &

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Standing Up to Colonial Power 9781496212689

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The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru 9780773590533, 9780773543416, 9780773590526, 0773590536

In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jose Jouve M

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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius 9780822386919

A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.

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The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru 9780773590526

The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru. The untol

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Value-free science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge 067493170X

Why have scientists shied away from politics, or defended their work as value free? How has the ideal of neutrality come

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