The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781108940085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 418 str.

William Beinart; Saul Dubow

Opis

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Recenzje

'Highly recommended.' J. O. Gump, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: The Scientific Imagination in South Africa; 1. Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century; 2. Scientific Governance and Colonial Institutions, c.1800–1870; 3: Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870–1902; 4. Science, Reconstruction, and the Imagining of the First 'New' South Africa, 1902–1929; 5. The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930–1948; 6. The Republic of Science, 1948–1990; 7. Big Science and Indigenous Knowledge: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the African Renaissance; Afterword.