THE COLONIAL MACHINE. "FRENCH SCIENCE AND OVERSEAS EXPANSION IN THE OLD REGIME"

por MCCLELLAN, JAMES E.

BREPOLS PUBLISHERS



THE COLONIAL MACHINE. "FRENCH SCIENCE AND OVERSEAS EXPANSION IN THE OLD REGIME"

ISBN: 978-2-503-53260-8
Fecha de la edición: 2011
Edición Nº: 1
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Encuadernación: CARTONE
Nº Pág.: 500

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Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Big-Picture Background to this Study - Historiographical Background -Metaphors and Reality - Utility as the Driving Force - Expertise, Careers, and Wanderlust -Concluding Introductory Remarks Prologue - The Colonial Machine / 1789 Part I - The metropolitan Wheels & Gears of a Colonial Scientific Bureaucracy: The Sponsoring Authorities - The Royal Navy / La Marine Royale - The Académie Royale des Sciences - The Jardin du Roi and Metropolitan Botanical Gardens - The Observatoire Royal- The Académie Royale de Marine at Brest - The Société Royale de Médecine - The Académie Royale de Chirurgie - Th e Société Royale d'Agriculture - The Compagnies des Indes - Missions and Missionaries - Tertiary Institutions, Secular Connections to the East - The Test Case of the Cabinet de Physique et d'Optique Part IIA - The Colonial Machine in Action: The Conquest of Space: Cartography and Navigation - Local Actors - Experimental Spaces - The Problem of Longitude at Sea, Version Française Part IIB - The Colonial Machine in Action: Living and Dying in the Colonies: Colonial Medical Structures Revisited - Th e Medical Research Engine - Meteorology - Mesmerism in Sain Domingue - French Interest in Native Botanicals and Remedies Part IIC - The Colonial Machine in Action: Cultivating an Empire: The Power of Sugar and Coffee - Botanistes du Roi and Royal Botanical Voyagers - Colonial Gardens, East and West - The Inter-Hemispheric System at Work - The Problem of Naval Timber - André Michaux's Mission to America - Agronomy and Other Applied Projects - Ecological Cause and Effect Part III - Limits and Alternatives: Kourou as a Test Case - Obstacles to Success - Soul of the Machine - The Republic of Letters - Colonial Autonomy and the Local Circulation of Knowledge Conclusions Appendices: 1-Colonial Members and Correspondants of the Académie Royale des Sciences - 2-Colonial Members and Correspondants of the Société Royale de Médecine List of Illustrations. Bibliography: Contemporary Sources - Secondary Sources. Abbreviations. Notes. Name Index. Index


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