Beyond Science and Empire : Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires, 1750–1945 (Hardcover)

1. Science and Empires: Past and Present Questions Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, Thomas A. S. Haddad, and Kapil Raj Part 1: Knowledge Production on Imperial Landscapes 2. Putting Ships to New Uses: "Floating Gardens" and the Circulation of Knowledge at Sea and on Land, 1790-1800 Jordan Goodman 3. Regional Knowledge in the Empire: Tobacco Cultivation during the Napoleonic Era Alexander van Wickeren 4. Global Communication and Construction of Knowledge in French Naval Medicine: Pierre-Francois Keraudren and the Health Department of French Navy, 1813-1845 Daniel Dutra Coelho Braga 5. Positioning the North: Making British Geographical Knowledge of Australia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Johanna Skurnik 6. Maps and the Man on the Spot: Bio-geographies, Knowledge, and Authority around and about the Zambezi Elizabeth Haines 7. The Global Dimensions of the Rome Zoological Garden and Italian Colonialism in Africa Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli Part 2: Knowledge Production at Imperial Crossroads 8. The Astronomical Observations of Bento Sanches Dorta in Rio de Janeiro, 1781-1787 Heloisa Meireles Gesteira 9. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire’s writings between European and Brazilian audiences, 1816-1850 Lorelai Kury 10. Commercial Statistics of Late Qing China Between Global Interest and Local Irrelevance, 1860-1910 Stacie A. Kent 11. Plague and the Global Emergence of Microbiology, 1894-1920 Shiori Nosaka and Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva