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'Africa Forms the Key' - Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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'Africa Forms the Key' - Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist
Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around
continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and
internationally. It contextualises Du Toit's work within a
particularly formative period of South African science, from the
paleoanthropological discoveries that sparked debates about the
origins of humankind to Jan Smuts' own theory of holism. Beyond
South African scientific discoveries, the book sets Du Toit's work
against a backdrop of ideological struggles over space, both
domestically in terms of segregation and nationalism, as well as
internationally as South Africa sought to assert its position
within the Commonwealth. These debates were embodied by Du Toit's
work on the theory of continental drift, which put Africa - and
South Africa - at the centre geologically and geographically. The
author also focuses on the divisions in geology caused by drift
theory, tracing the vigorous intellectual debate and dissent
indicative of the ideological milieu within which scientific
thought is constructed. It traces the history of continental drift
from its inception in the nineteenth century and later work of
Alfred Wegener, which was both elaborated upon and substantiated by
Du Toit. The study further focuses on Du Toit's research on
continental drift in South African and South America, and the
geological, fossil and climatological evidence used to bolster this
theory.
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