Nature The Exotic And The Science Of French Colonialism
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Nature The Exotic And The Science Of French Colonialism
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Author : Michael A. Osborne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Nature The Exotic And The Science Of French Colonialism written by Michael A. Osborne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The colonization of Algeria in the nineteenth century was premised on the belief that Europeans, as well as non-indigenous animals and plants, could acclimatize to life in North Africa. While traditional French science showed little interest in such practical matters as attempting to adapt exotic plants and animals to new environments, support came from the Societe zoologique d'acclimatation - the ""French Sierra Club"" - whose story is the subject of this book. Because its work was politically useful in support of France's colonial ambitions in Algeria and elsewhere, the Society found favor with Napoleon III's government, and its influence was soon widespread. For example, the Society fostered the creation of nature preserves in Africa and zoos in Paris, and its ideas changed the research agendas of pure science as well. In this major study of how the acquisition of empire affected French science, Michael A. Osborne treats in turn the founding of the Society and its evolution to 1920; its monument to Napoleon III's ""modern"" Paris, the Jardin zoologique d'acclimatation; the Society's core scientific ideology of Lamarckian transformation; the history of provincial acclimatization societies in Nancy and Grenoble; and the Society's activities in the colonies of the new French empire. An important study of the patronage and politics of science, this book offers new insights for students of environmentalism, science history and policy, and modern European history.
The Emergence Of Tropical Medicine In France
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Author : Michael A. Osborne
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24
The Emergence Of Tropical Medicine In France written by Michael A. Osborne and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with History categories.
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively in a system of provincial medical schools built by the navy in the port cities of Brest, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Toulon, and Bordeaux. Michael A. Osborne draws out this separate species of French medicine by examining the histories of these schools and other institutions in the regional and municipal contexts of port life. Each site was imbued with its own distinct sensibilities regarding diet, hygiene, ethnicity, and race, all of which shaped medical knowledge and practice in complex and heretofore unrecognized ways. Osborne argues that physicians formulated localized concepts of diseases according to specific climatic and meteorological conditions, and assessed, diagnosed, and treated patients according to their ethnic and cultural origins. He also demonstrates that regions, more so than a coherent nation, built the empire and specific medical concepts and practices. Thus, by considering tropical medicine’s distinctive history, Osborne brings to light a more comprehensive and nuanced view of French medicine, medical geography, and race theory, all the while acknowledging the navy’s crucial role in combating illness and investigating the racial dimensions of health.
Colonial Culture In France Since The Revolution
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Author : Pascal Blanchard
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-02
Colonial Culture In France Since The Revolution written by Pascal Blanchard and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with History categories.
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.
Cultivating The Colonies
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Author : Christina Folke Ax
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-09
Cultivating The Colonies written by Christina Folke Ax and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-09 with History categories.
The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally “got their hands dirty” in the business of empire. The eleven essays include studies of animal husbandry in the Philippines, farming in Indochina, and indigenous medicine in India. They are global in scope, ranging from the Russian North to Mozambique, examining the consequences of colonialism on nature, including its impact on animals, fisheries, farmlands, medical practices, and even the diets of indigenous people. Cultivating the Colonies establishes beyond all possible doubt the importance of the environment as a locus for studying the power of the colonial state.
The French Colonial Mind Mental Maps Of Empire And Colonial Encounters
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Author : Martin Thomas
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The French Colonial Mind Mental Maps Of Empire And Colonial Encounters written by Martin Thomas and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.
What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation?s political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions. But all these motivating factors depended on other, less tangible forces, namely, the prevailing attitudes of the day and their influence among those charged with acquiring or administering a colonial empire. The French Colonial Mind explores these mindsets to illuminate the nature of French imperialism. ø The first of two linked volumes, Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encountersøbrings together fifteen leading scholars of French colonial history to investigate the origins and outcomes of imperialist ideas among France?s most influential ?empire-makers.? Considering French colonial experiences in Africa and Southeast Asia, the authors identify the processes that made Frenchmen and women into ardent imperialists. By focusing on attitudes, presumptions, and prejudices, these essays connect the derivation of ideas about empire, colonized peoples, and concepts of civilization with the forms and practices of French imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors to The French Colonial Mind place the formation and the derivation of colonialist thinking at the heart of this history of imperialism.
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire
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Author : Andrew Goss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-05
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire written by Andrew Goss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Science categories.
The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides an analytical review essay of the field, while also providing an overview of the topic. There is now a rich literature developed by historians of science as well as scholars of empire demonstrating the numerous ways science and empire grew together, especially between 1600 and 1960.
Medicine And The Saints
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Author : Ellen J. Amster
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Medicine And The Saints written by Ellen J. Amster and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with History categories.
The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different problem in the history of medicine: international espionage and a doctor’s murder; disease and revolt in Moroccan cities; a battle for authority between doctors and Muslim midwives; and the search for national identity in the welfare state. This research reveals how Moroccans ingested and digested French science and used it to create a nationalist movement and Islamist politics, and to understand disease and health. In the colonial encounter, the Muslim body became a seat of subjectivity, the place from which individuals contested and redefined the political.
Natural Interests
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Author : Caroline Ford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-28
Natural Interests written by Caroline Ford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-28 with History categories.
Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating floods of 1856 and 1910 in Paris—caused growing worry over the damage wrought by deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The natural world took on new value for France’s urban bourgeoisie, as both a site of aesthetic longing and a destination for tourism. Not only naturalists and scientists but politicians, engineers, writers, and painters took up environmental causes. Imperialism and international dialogue were also instrumental in shaping environmental consciousness, as the unfamiliar climates of France’s overseas possessions changed perceptions of the natural world and influenced conservationist policies. By the early twentieth century, France had adopted innovative environmental legislation, created national and urban parks and nature reserves, and called for international cooperation on environmental questions.
Science In The Twentieth Century
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Author : John Krige
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-19
Science In The Twentieth Century written by John Krige and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with History categories.
With over forty chapters, written by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume represents the best work in America, Europe, and Asia. Geographical diversity of the authors is reflected in the different perspectives devoted to the subject, and all major disciplinary developments are covered. There are also sections concerning the countries that have made the most significant contributions, the relationship between science and industry, the importance of instrumentation, and the cultural influence of scientific modes of thought. Students and professionals will come to appreciate how, and why, science has developed - as with any other human activity, it is subject to the dynamics of society and politics.
History Of Soybeans And Soyfoods In France 1665 2015
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Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
language : en
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
Release Date : 2015-04-21
History Of Soybeans And Soyfoods In France 1665 2015 written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and has been published by Soyinfo Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with Soybean categories.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 145 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books.