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Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the
Nature's Government Science Imperial Britain and the Improvement of the World
Author: Richard Drayton
Nature's Government is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to more complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300059762
ISBN-10: 0300059760
Publication Date: 8/1/2000
Pages: 354
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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