Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9781317315223
ISBN-13 : 1317315227
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Book Synopsis Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire by : Sarah Irving

Download or read book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire written by Sarah Irving and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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