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Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the firs
Nature's Government
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Richard Drayton
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Laurelyn Whitt
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of
Imperial Nature
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Jim Endersby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first—and mo
The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007
Language: en
Pages: 905
Authors: Hannah Gay
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Imperial College Press

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This is the first major history of Imperial College London. The book tells the story of a new type of institution that came into being in 1907 with the federati