Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science Across the British Empire, 1800-1970

Tables & Figures Preface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND OVERVIEW Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship; J.M.Hodge The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science, 1800-1970; B.M.Bennett PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES Science and the British Empire from its Beginning to 1850; J.Gascoigne A Networked Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India, 1855-1885; B.M.Bennett Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia; R.Tiwari 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions, Australians and the History of Science; P.H.Hoffenberg Between the Nation and the World: JT Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth-Century; T.Pietsch PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS AT THE END OF EMPIRE Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming; G.A.Barton 'The Chance to Send their First Class Men out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service; S. Clarke The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire; J.M.Hodge The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain, Argentina, and Chile, 1939-59; A.Howkins Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination, Practical Limitations, and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa, 1917-1953; C.Jennings Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria; M.M.Heaton The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agricultural Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service; J.Gold Epilogue; M.Worboys Bibliography Index