Britain and the World: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970

Name: Britain and the World: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan UK
SKU: 9781349321902
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Bennett, B.; Hodge, J.

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.