ISBN:
9780199296637
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0199296634
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 296 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version A Commonwealth of Knowledge : Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000
DDC:
305.83/936
Keywords:
Whites Race identity
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Science Social aspects
;
History
;
Science Political aspects
;
History
;
National characteristics, South African
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Nationalism History
;
Power (Social sciences) History
;
National characteristics, South African
;
Nationalism ; South Africa ; History
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Power (Social sciences) ; South Africa ; History
;
Science ; Political aspects ; South Africa ; History
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Science ; Social aspects ; South Africa ; History
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South Africa ; Race relations
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Whites ; Race identity ; South Africa
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Electronic books
;
South Africa Intellectual life
;
South Africa Politics and government 19th century
;
South Africa Politics and government 20th century
;
South Africa Race relations
Abstract:
This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;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 knowled
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Literary and Scientific Institutions in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony; 2. 'Of Special Colonial Interest': The Cape Monthly Magazine and the Circulation of Ideas; 3. Colonialism, Imperialism, Constitutionalism; 4. Science and South Africanism; 5. A Commonwealth of Knowledge; 6. Conclusion: The Renationalization of Knowledge?; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-290) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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