The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India - Couverture rigide

Baber, Zaheer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791429199 ISBN 13 : 9780791429198

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from antiquity through colonialism to the modern period. The focus is on the two- way interaction between science and society: how specific social and cultural factors led to the emergence of specific scientific/technological knowledge systems and institutions that transformed the very social conditions that produced them. A key feature is the author's analysis of the role of pre-colonial trading circuits and other institutional factors in transmitting scientific and technological knowledge from India to other civilizational complexes. A significant portion represents an analysis of the role of modern science and technology in the consolidation of the British empire in India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Zaheer Baber is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791429199
• ISBN 13: 9780791429198
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
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