ABSTRACT
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|68 pages
Networks of Circulation
chapter Chapter 1|21 pages
Controlling Knowledge
chapter Chapter 3|24 pages
Knowing the Ocean
part Section II|78 pages
Writing the American Book of Nature
chapter Chapter 4|28 pages
A New World of Secrets
part Section III|78 pages
Itineraries of Collection
part Section IV|80 pages
Contested Powers