Rood, Daniel Brett (Editor)
Manning, Patrick (Editor)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Physical Details: 424 pages
The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific investigation—that profound changes in scientific knowledge and practice also took place. In this volume, an esteemed group of international historians examines key elements of science in societies across Spanish America, Europe, West Africa, India, and Asia as they overlapped each other increasingly. Chapters focus on the range of participants in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, their concentrated effort in description and taxonomy, and advancements in techniques for sharing knowledge. Together, contributors highlight the role of scientific change and development in tightening global and imperial connections, encouraging a deeper conversation among historians of science and world historians and shedding new light on a pivotal moment in history for both fields.
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Review Megan Kitching (2018) Review of "Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850". Archives of Natural History (pp. 385-385).
Review Diarmid Finnegan (2017) Review of "Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 354-356).
Chapter Irina Podgorny (2016) Los Pichiciegos: Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 163-180).
Chapter Jessica Ratclif (2016) The Great Data Divergence: Global History of Science within Global Economic History. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 237-254).
Chapter Hanna Hodacs (2016) Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge: Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 90-104).
Chapter Eleonora Rohland (2016) Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast: Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722–1900. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 38-53).
Chapter Marcelo Fabián Figueroa (2016) Félix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay: Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784–1802. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 147-162).
Chapter Göran Rydén (2016) How Eighteenth-Century “Travelers in Trade” Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 105-126).
Chapter Stuart McCook (2016) “Squares of Tropic Summer”: The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770–1910. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 199-215).
Chapter Kenneth Nyberg (2016) Linnaeus’s Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729–1756. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 73-89).
Chapter Devyani Gupta (2016) Stamping Empire: Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 216-236).
Chapter Leida Fernández-Prieto (2016) Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar: Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790–1880. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 181-198).
Chapter Matthew James Crawford (2016) Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors: Spain’s Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 21-37).
Chapter Kay Etheridge (2016) The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Bird-Eating Tarantula: Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 54-72).
Chapter Daniel Rood (2016) Toward a Global Labor History of Science. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 255-274).
Chapter Iris Montero Sobrevilla (2016) The Slow Science of Swift Nature: Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain. In: Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850 (pp. 127-146).
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