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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa - 1700 to the Present (Hardcover)
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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa - 1700 to the Present (Hardcover)
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South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine
the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its
position on the African continent made it a staging post for
Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth
century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of
visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became
central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural
intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral resources.
Scientific work both facilitated, and offered alternatives to, the
imposition of segregation and apartheid in the twentieth century.
William Beinart and Saul Dubow offer an innovative exploration of
science and technology in this complex, divided society. Bridging a
range of disciplines from astronomy to zoology, they demonstrate
how scientific knowledge shaped South Africa's peculiar path to
modernity. In so doing, they examine the work of remarkable
individual scientists and institutions, as well as the
contributions of leading politicians from Jan Smuts to Thabo Mbeki.
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