Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge (Hardcover)

Preface and Tribute to Patrick Harries (1950-2016) Part One: Theoretical Considerations 1. Travelling Knowledge: Intersections between Global History and the History of Knowledge (Nigel Penn and Martin Lengwiler) Part Two: Mapping and Exploring 2. The Work of Naturalist Peter Kolbe, 1675-1726 (Nigel Penn) 3. A Naturalist’s Career: Hinrich Lichtenstein, 1780-1857 (Sandra Naf-Gloor) 4. The African Travels of Hans Schinz, Biological Transfer and the Professionalisation and Popularisation of (African) Botany in Zurich, 1880-1940 (Dag Henrichsen) Part Three: Knowledge Practices between Colonial and Local Actors 5. Research in the German and French Colonial Armies, 1884-1914 (Heinrich Hartmann) 6. Standards and Standardization: The History of a Malaria Vaccine Candidate (Spf66) in Tanzania (Lukas Meier) 7. Kifafa in Mahenge: Disease and the Confluence of Knowledge. The Global Trajectory of Knowledge about a Localized Syndrome (Marcel Dreier) Part Four: International Discourses, Transnational Circulations of Knowledge 8. The Politics and Production of History on the Birth of Archaeology at the Cape, 1827-2015 (Tanja Hammel) 9. ‘Nothing but the Love for Natural History and my Desire to Help Your Museum’? Ludwig Krebs’ Transcontinental Collecting Partnership with Hinrich Lichtenstein (Patrick Grogan) 10. Colonial Social Accounting and the Possibility of Economic Comparison between the North and South (1930s to 1950s) 11. Davos of Thana? Local, National and International Perspectives on Tuberculosis Treatment and Control in a Decolonising Health System, 1950-1965 (Pascal Schmid)