Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World by Richard Drayton

Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World

Richard Drayton

368 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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'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 complex kinds of knowledge. Sc...

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