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Adrian Howkins, Brett M Bennett, Christian Jennings, Gregory A Barton, Jennifer Gold, John Gascoigne, Joseph M Hodge, Matthew MBiblio.com

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

2011réf. PJ-0WX7-NTFP2011 Palgrave hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. This new survey of scientific endeavor within the British Empire is the most wide-ranging yet published examining the interconnections between science the British Empire and the emergence of a globalized world. It identifies and analyzes the web of scientific networks crisscrossing the British Empire through which scientific knowledge and authority were produced circulated and legitimated critically engaging with new ways of thinking about networked connections across space. The contributors offer a comparative perspective that surveys a variety of scientific initiatives and circuits including networks of agronomists anatomists botanists foresters geologists marine biologists oceanographers and physicists. They chart the evolving practices strategies theoretical ideas and agendas among research scientists technical advisers imperial administrators and native peoples in Africa Australia Britain India and elsewhere; each chapter combines rigorous research with theoretical reflection based on the latest literature as well as serving as a useful introduction to that literature. Contents: 1 'Science and Empire: An Overview of the Historical Scholarship' by Joseph M. Hodge 2 'The Consolidation and Reconfiguration of 'British' Networks of Science 1800-1970' by Brett M. Bennett 3 'Science and the British Empire from its Beginnings to 1850' by John Gascoigne 4 'A Network Approach to the Origins of Forestry Education in India 1855-1885' by Brett M. Bennett 5 'Anatomy of Reception: Science Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia' by Rajive Tiwari 6 'A Science of Our Own': Nineteenth Century Exhibitions Australians and the History of Science' by Peter H. Hoffenberg 7 'Between the Nation and the World: J.T. Wilson and Scientific Networks in the Early Twentieth Century' by Tamson Pietsch 8 'Albert Howard and the Decolonization of Science: From the Raj to Organic Farming' by Gregory A. Barton 9 'The Chance to Send 'Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies': The Making of the Colonial Research Service' by Sabine Clarke 10 'The Hybridity of Colonial Knowledge: British Tropical Agricultural Science and African Farming Practices at the End of Empire' by Joseph M. Hodge 11 'The Science of Decolonization: The Retention of 'Environmental Authority' in the Contest for Antarctic Sovereignty between Britain Argentina and Chile 1939-59' by Adrian Howkins 12 'Unexploited Assets: Imperial Imagination Practical Limitations and Marine Fisheries Research in East Africa 1917-53' by Christian Jennings 13 'Thomas Adeoye Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria' by Matthew M. Heaton 14 'The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period: The Case of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the British Colonial Forestry Service' by Jennifer Gold. Palgrave hardcover

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Steuart or Stewart William of Dumbarton ScotlandABAA

Scotland. Letter Signed to John Adam Esq. concerning repairs to Dumbarton Castle

1790réf. 3249Dumbarton Scotland 1790. Good. Folio half-sheet 1 p. 20 lines name of the recipient on verso 2 vertical and 4 horizontal folds evidence of wax seal on verso old tape repair at top margin not affecting text ink gall corrosion on outer margin affecting one word. Preserved in mylar sleeve. An extremely curious provincial Scottish letter dated 1790 which incorporates misspellings based on non-standard sociolects of the Scottish dialect. While "worthless" relics such as this were almost invariably discarded they remain of the great interest in Ortheopy the study of pronunciation. Indeed much of what is known about Vulgar Latin pronunciation is preserved in graffiti in the ruins of Pompei. Concerning the content of the letter: William Steuart or Stewart writes to John Adam Esq. describing water damage to four rooms in Dumbarton Castle: two were newly painted the other two newly wall-papered. An associate suggested that he procure a carpenter in Inversnaid to the amount of GBP 35 and therefore "if you have any masonwork to do I can do it at the time." The letter is signed by Steuart but was clearly dictated by him to an unnamed scribe. Our transcription of the letter retains the original spelling: "Dumbarton May 24th 1790. Dear Sir I received both your letters one of the 10th & the other of the 13th curant & have noted the contents. I told Capt. Roberson what work was to be don sic at the Castle hear sic this year when he simed i.e. seemed much surprised that his hous sic was not rough cast. Ther sic is 2 rooms neu sic painted & other two neu sic pappred sic which will be quite spiled i.e. spoiled with the watter sic comin through the wall & he has wrot i.e. wrote to Campt. Rudyard about it. Last neight sic I had a letter from Mr. Young beiging i.e. begging of me to go to Inversnaid to gat sic som sic Carpenter work don sic ther sic to the amount of GBP 35 so if you have any masson sic work to do I can do it at the time. I am Dear Sir your very humbel sic Serv't" shaky signature of William Steuart. Questions remain: Why go to Inversnaid to procure a carpenter This extremely tiny village was located 30 miles away from Dumbarton Castle while Glasgow was only 13 miles away. And was recipient of the present letter to be identified with the architect John Adam Esq. of Edinburgh 1721-1792 son of William Adam and older brother of Robert Adam unknown books

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