The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. In particular

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the prod

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Why could not the Second World War catalyse science in India as it did in the West? This is one of the central questions of this volume on the British policy to