A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000
By Saul Dubow
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A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical t…
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Science & TechnologySocial SciencesHistoryPhilosophyNonfictionScience - General & MiscellaneousHistory & Philosophy of ScienceAfrican StudiesMajor Branches of Philosophical StudyAfrican HistoryEuropean HistoryWorld HistorySouthern African HistoryBritish History - General & MiscellaneousColonialism & ImperialismGeneral African HistoryScience - General & MiscellaneousPhilosophy of Science - Social AspectsPhilosophy of Science - General & MiscellaneousScience, Philosophy ofSouth Africa - HistoryAfrica - Colonial HistoryBritish Imperialism & British Empire - HistoryScience->Social aspects



