LEADER 00000cam a2200757Ka 4500 001 ocn828424812 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040350.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 130225s2010 enka ob 001 0 eng d 019 745563076|a816845313 020 9781443825962|q(electronic book) 020 1443825964|q(electronic book) 020 1283141744 020 9781283141741 020 |z144382559X 020 |z9781443825597 024 8 9786613141743 035 (OCoLC)828424812|z(OCoLC)745563076|z(OCoLC)816845313 037 314174|bMIL 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dCDX|dYDXCP|dE7B|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dIDEBK |dEBLCP|dMHW|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 049 RIDW 050 4 Q175.46|b.S34 2010eb 072 7 POL|x045000|2bisacsh 082 04 325.3201|222 084 AK 16700|2rvk 084 LB 25000|2rvk 084 LB 53000|2rvk 090 Q175.46|b.S34 2010eb 245 00 Science and empire in the nineteenth century :|ba journey of imperial conquest and scientific progress /|cedited by Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme and Donna Spalding Andŕeolle. 264 1 Newcastle upon Tyne :|bCambridge Scholars,|c2010. 300 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index. 505 0 pt. 1. Space and structures of power -- Charles Doughty's quest and crusade in Arabia deserta / Catherine Delmas -- 'A perfect map of Palestine' (1872-1880) : biblical geography, intelligence and prophecy / Stéphanie Prévost - - Cartography in the age of science : the mapping of Ireland in the nineteenth century / Valérie Morisson -- pt. 2. Classifying plant and human species -- Western science, colonisation and reification : a case study of the utilitarian use of botany in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon / Christine Vandamme -- The discourse of empiricism and the legitimization of empire / Anne Le Guellec -- Skeletons in the cupboard : imperial science and the collection and museumization of indigenous remains / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick -- Science and the American empire : the American school of anthropology and the justification of expansionism / Donna Spalding Andréolle and Susanne Berthier Foglar -- pt. 3. Science and political discourse -- A 'republic of science'? The role of science in Thomas Jefferson's imperial vision / Mehdi Achouche -- Scientific rhetoric and the American empire / Jean-Marie Ruiz -- pt. 4. Popularising science -- The first dinosaurs and changing museum paradigms in America / Mark Meigs -- Popular evolutionism and the ethics of progress / Richard Somerset -- pt. 5. Science and spirituality -- The edifying fold : discomfort with technology in the Jesuits' Letters from America / Frédéric Dorel -- Questioning the empire of science : John Muir's epistemological modesty / Jean-Daniel Collomb. 520 The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a central paradigm in the discourse on and representations of otherness. The interweaving of scientific and ideological discourses is not limited to the geopolitical frame of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but extends to the rise of the American empire as well. The fields of research tackled are human and social scie ... 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 19th century|2fast 648 7 1800 - 1899|2fast 650 0 Science|xSocial aspects|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85118585|xHistory|y19th century.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 650 0 Imperialism and science.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh2006001308 650 0 Science|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2008111329 650 7 Science|xSocial aspects.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1108360 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Imperialism and science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1739241 650 7 Science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108176 655 4 Aufsatzsammlung. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 700 1 Delmas, Catherine.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2006047771 700 1 Vandamme, Christine.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /nb2010031803 700 1 Andréolle, Donna Spalding.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /names/nb2010031804 776 08 |iPrint version:|tScience and empire in the nineteenth century.|dNewcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010 |z144382559X|w(DLC) 2010551500|w(OCoLC)678476428 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=532271|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID