Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781135899097
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.

Index

A

Abreu, Aleixo de, 130

Absolutism, 11, 333, 336, 339

Académie des Sciences (Paris), 16, 55, 57–62, 64–65, 207, 318, 336

Academies:

see Scientific academies

Acosta, José de, 108

Actor–network theory:

see Metrology;

Latour, Bruno;

Measurement

Adams, John, 268

Adams, Julia, 337

Adanson, Michel, 269

Admiralty (British), 78, 262

Aepinus, Franz, 259

African and Afro-American knowledge, 5, 11–12, 19–21, 128, 210, 219, 263, 281–305, 292, 312, 320–326, 334, 341–342

(see also Afro-American religions;

Slavery and slaves;

Free blacks;

Obeah;

Occult knowledge;

Poisons;

Vodou)

Africans and Afro-Americans:

see Slavery and slaves

Afro-American religions, 20, 263, 283, 295–298, 300–301, 322–324

(see also Obeah;

Vodou)

Agriculture, 9, 17–18, 153–156, 160–164, 166–170, 181–182, 184, 210, 230, 232, 236, 238, 256, 260, 305

(see also Improvement;

Plantations)

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 100, 109

Air quality, 62–63, 135,...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• SECTION I Networks of Circulation
• SECTION II Writing the American Book of Nature
• SECTION III Itineraries of Collection
• SECTION IV Contested Powers
• Contributors
• Index