Description
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. This title challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner.
Trade Review'A strength of the volume is its coverage of the appliedA" aspects of knowledge, from Anthropology through to Eugenics and state and social planning. There is also a commendable sensitivity to the unique ethnic dynamics of southern Africa, not least, for example, the complications of an indigenizedA" and powerful Afrikaner nationalism.' Donal Lowry, Oxford Brookes University
Table of ContentsSaul Dubow, ‘Introduction’
Patrick Harries, ‘Field sciences in scientific fields: entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H. A. Junod’
William K. Storey, ‘Making canes credible in colonial Mauritius’
Saul Dubow, ‘A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929’
Dawn Nell, ‘”For the public benefit”: livestock statistics and expertise in the late-nineteenth century Cape Colony’
Deborah Posel, ‘A mania for measurement: statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid’
Keith Shear, ‘Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa’
Susanne Klausen, ‘The Race Welfare Society: eugenis and birth control in Johannesburg, 1930–1940’
Shula Marks, ‘Doctors and the state: George Gale and South Africa’s experiment in social medicine’
Jocelyn Alexander, ‘Technical development and the human factor: sciences of development in Rhodesia’s Native Affairs Department’
