Title A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.
Contents	Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony -- Of Special Colonial Interest: The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas -- Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism -- Science and South Africanism -- A Commonwealth of Knowledge -- Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge?
Summary	This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowled.
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Subject	White people -- Race identity -- South Africa.
	White people -- Race identity.
	South Africa.
	National characteristics, South African.
	National characteristics, South African.
	Nationalism -- South Africa -- History.
	Nationalism.
	History.
	Power (Social sciences) -- South Africa -- History.
	Power (Social sciences)
	South Africa -- Race relations.
	Race relations.
	South Africa -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	South Africa -- Intellectual life.
	Intellectual life.
	Science -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History.
	Science -- Social aspects.
	Science -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- History.
	Science -- Political aspects.
	Science.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Dubow, Saul. Commonwealth of knowledge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199296634 9780199296637 (DLC) 2006021303 (OCoLC)69021986
ISBN	9780191516344 (electronic book)
	0191516341 (electronic book)
	0199296634 (Cloth)
	9780199296637 (alkaline paper)

Title A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 / Saul Dubow.

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