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

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

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  • ISBN:978-2-503-53260-8
  • EAN:9782503532608
  • Editorial: BREPOLS PUBLISHERS
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  • 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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