Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World: Science, British Imperialism and the Improvement of the World 豆 0.0分

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作者：Richard Drayton

出版社：Yale University Press UK SR

出版日期：2000-01

ISBN：9780300059762

文件格式： pdf

标签： 科学史 西方 英国 自然 科学 环境 帝国主义 十八世纪

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'Nature's Government' is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful...