Natural science and the origins of the British Empire
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Natural science and the origins of the British Empire
（Empires in perspective, no. 5）
Pickering & Chatto, 2008
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 'In a Pure Soil': Francis Bacon's Empire of Knowledge
- Chapter 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle's Pansophical Empire
- Chapter 3 Robert Boyle's Protestant Colonial Project
- Chapter 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World
- Chapter 5 John Locke's Language of Empire
- Chapter 6 Conclusion
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