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Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World
Professor Richard Drayton, Richard Drayton
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| #1684996 in Books | 2000-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.88 x6.14l,1.51 | File type: PDF | 354 pages||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Important history.|By H-S|Drayton's main point is to show the inter-relatedness of imperial control over nature and people. Natural sciences and political economy became related. That is, an understanding of nature's laws would help improve the administration of people and things/environment. Botany facilitated improvement ["a commitment to the reform of the world as a whole"|From the Inside Flap|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 k
Nature’s Government isa 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. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environm...
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