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Science and Empire

Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970
By:B. Bennett
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230252288
eText ISBN:9780230320826
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.