Science, Africa and Europe : processing information and creating knowledge / edited by Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn and Patrick Harries

Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Date: ©2019
Physical Description: xii, 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Lengwiler, Martin, Penn, Nigel, and Harries, Patrick

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Routledge studies in science, technology, and society

Contents

Preface: tribute to Patrick Harries (1950-2016) -- Creating truth, connecting worlds: science between Europe and Africa (introduction) / Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn -- Peter Kolb and the circulation of knowledge about the Cape of Good Hope / Nigel Penn, Adrien Delmas -- A naturalist's career: Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780-1857) / Sandra Näf-Gloor -- Nothing but love for natural history and my desire to help your museum? Ludwig Krebs ́transcontinental collecting partnership with Hinrich Lichtenstein / Patrick Grogan -- The African travels of Hans Schinz, biological transfer and the academisation and popularisation of (African) botany in Zurich / Dag Henrichsen -- Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee: one work's significance for European knowledge production about the Asante Empire / Sonia Abun-Nasr -- Tropical soldiers? New definitions of military strength in the colonial context (1884-1914) / Heinrich Hartmann -- Disease and the confluence of knowledge: Kifafa and epilepsy in Ulanga (Tanzania) / Marcel Dreier -- Standards and standardizations: the history of a malaria vaccine candidate (SPF66) in Tanzania / Lukas Meier -- The politics and production of history on the birth of archaeology at the Cape (1827-2015) / Tanja Hammel -- Davos of Ghana? Local, national and international perspectives on tuberculosis treatment and control (ca. 1920 to 1965) / Pascal Schmid -- When economics went overseas: epistemic problems in the macroeconomic analysis of late colonial Africa / Daniel Speich.

Summary

"Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the seventeenth century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilizations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?"--

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History

ISBN

9780815378310 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0815378319 hardcover ; alkaline paper

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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