Modernizing Nature Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development 1800-1950 |
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| Author:
| Rajan, S. Ravi |
| Series title: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-151546-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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Professor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. He disagrees with those historiographical and social scientific approaches that look upon science and scientific institutions instrumentally as 'tools of empire'. Rather, he argues that the 'colonial' sciences had cognitive, ideological, and interventionist traditions distinct from each other andfrom the colonial...
More DescriptionProfessor Rajan explores the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. He disagrees with those historiographical and social scientific approaches that look upon science and scientific institutions instrumentally as 'tools of empire'. Rather, he argues that the 'colonial' sciences had cognitive, ideological, and interventionist traditions distinct from each other andfrom the colonial bureaucracy and that histories of science, environmental management, and indeed of the colonial state, must comprehend these distinct cognitive traditions.