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Chapter 5 - Science

from Part II - Elementary Aspects of Colonial Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Kris Manjapra
Kris Manjapra
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Tufts University, Massachusetts
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This chapter illuminates the role of science in colonial expansion since the time of the Enlightenment, as well as the varied forms of contestation, creative appropriation, and counter-science among the colonized.

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colonial practicescolonial discoursesenumerationcataloguinguniversalismdescriptionEnlightenment sciencemeasurementcategorizationexpeditionsorientalismdecolonizing Enlightenment
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Colonialism in Global Perspective , pp. 127 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Science
  • Kris Manjapra, Tufts University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Colonialism in Global Perspective
  • Online publication: 16 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560580.007
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  • Kris Manjapra, Tufts University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Colonialism in Global Perspective
  • Online publication: 16 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560580.007
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  • Science
  • Kris Manjapra, Tufts University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Colonialism in Global Perspective
  • Online publication: 16 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560580.007
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