Science In The British Colonies Of America
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Science In The British Colonies Of America
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Author : Raymond Phineas Stearns
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1970
Science In The British Colonies Of America written by Raymond Phineas Stearns and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Science categories.
Natural Science And The Origins Of The British Empire
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Author : Sarah Irving
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Natural Science And The Origins Of The British Empire written by Sarah Irving and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with History categories.
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
Science And Technology In Colonial America
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Author : William E. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-09-30
Science And Technology In Colonial America written by William E. Burns and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with History categories.
Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy—what we call science—such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all aspects of how science and technology impacted the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. Science and Technology in Everyday Life in Colonial America covers a wide range of topics that will interest students of American history and the history of science and technology: * Domestic technology—how colonial women devised new strategies for day-to-day survival * Agricultural—how Native Americans and African slaves influenced the development of a American system of agriculture * War—how the frequent battles during the colonial period changed how industry made consumer goods This volume includes myriad examples of the impact science and technology had on the lives of individual who lived in the New World.
American Curiosity
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Author : Susan Scott Parrish
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
American Curiosity written by Susan Scott Parrish and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
Industrial Experiments In The British Colonies Of North America
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Author : Eleanor Louisa Lord
language : en
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press : [Guggenheim, Weil, printers]
Release Date : 1896
Industrial Experiments In The British Colonies Of North America written by Eleanor Louisa Lord and has been published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press : [Guggenheim, Weil, printers] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Great Britain categories.
Science In The Service Of Empire
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Author : John Gascoigne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-08
Science In The Service Of Empire written by John Gascoigne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American, French and Industrial Revolutions unleashed intense and dramatic change, placing growing pressure on the British state and increasing its need for expert advice on scientific matters. This was largely provided by Banks, who used his personal networks and systems of patronage to integrate scientific concerns with the complex machinery of government. In this book, originally published in 1998, Gascoigne skilfully draws out the rich detail of Banks' life within the broader political framework, and shows how imperial concerns prompted interest in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. This is an important examination of the British State during a time of change and upheaval.
Science At The End Of Empire
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Author : Sabine Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Science At The End Of Empire written by Sabine Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
This book produces a major rethinking of the history of development after 1940 through an exploration of Britain?s ambitions for industrialisation in its Caribbean colonies. Industrial development is a neglected topic in histories of the British Colonial Empire, and we know very little of plans for Britain?s Caribbean colonies in general in the late colonial period, despite the role played by riots in the region in prompting an increase in development spending. This account shows the importance of knowledge and expertise in the promotion of a model of Caribbean development that is best described as liberal rather than state-centred and authoritarian. It explores how the post-war period saw an attempt by the Colonial Office to revive Caribbean economies by transforming cane sugar from a low-value foodstuff into a lucrative starting compound for making fuels, plastics and medical products. In addition, it shows that as Caribbean territories moved towards independence and America sought to shape the future of the region, scientific and economic advice became a key strategy for the maintenance of British control of the West Indian colonies. Britain needed to counter attempts by American-backed experts to promote a very different approach to industrial development after 1945 informed by the priorities of US foreign policy.
Science And Empire
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Author : B. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-09-13
Science And Empire written by B. Bennett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with History categories.
Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
Science In Colonial America
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Author : Brendan January
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Science In Colonial America written by Brendan January and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the scientific contributions made by people in colonial America, including natural history, medicine, astronomy, and electricity.
Three Centuries Of Science And Scientists In America
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Author : Linda Hall Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Three Centuries Of Science And Scientists In America written by Linda Hall Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Portraits, American categories.