Civilizing mission : exact sciences and French overseas expansion, 1830-1940
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書誌事項
Civilizing mission : exact sciences and French overseas expansion, 1830-1940
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993
大学図書館所蔵 全14件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, France maintained its position on the world stage by undertaking cultural projects abroad, both in its colonies and in foreign spheres of influence. From Shanghai to Madagascar to Quito, French scientific norms dominated institutions of higher learning. In "Civilizing Mission", Lewis Pyenson offers a reappraisal of French intellectual expansion during the crucial period from the conquest of Algeria to the fall of the Third Republic. Drawing on sources in a dozen languages and archives on five continents, Pyenson examines how the practitioners of the "exact", as opposed to "descriptive" sciences, performed in relative isolation - how, in one sense, science was driven by its own imperatives. At the same time, Pyenson explores the connections between scientists and the geopolitical realities of their time, showing the ways in which even refined scientific study in such fields as physics and astronomy ultimately contributed to the business of colonialism.
Pyenson concludes that the centralized French scientific activity, organized and - to a significant extent - financed under military administration, set the tone for what we now call the military-scientific establishment. As historians of science begin to examine indigenous work in places North Americans and Europeans consider to be far-flung corners of the world, this book aims to provide a new understanding of a time when "French intellectuals engaged in a mission to civilize the world".
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