The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India 9780791495520, 0791429202, 9780791429204, 9780791429198

The science of empire : scientific knowledge, civilization, and colonial rule in India 9780791429198, 0791429199, 9780791429204, 0791429202

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Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge 9780226487243

We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen

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Islam and the Army in Colonial India : Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire 9780521898454

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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule 9780520927742

Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the makin

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Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan 9780804769846

An innovative look at Japan's wartime discourse of science and nationalism and how it shaped postwar Japan.

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Social history of science in colonial India 9780195681574, 0195681576

Contributed articles.

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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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Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule 1009311735, 9781009311731

Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its

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Mughal Rule in India

First paragraph of Chapter 1: "On the eve of Babur's invasion, India was parcelled out among numerous mutually

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Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 0804783802, 9780804783804

Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of reli

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