Umfang:
694 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9782503532608
Serie:
De diversis artibus 87 = N.S., 50
Anmerkung:
Some of the contents: Introduction: The big-picture background to this study / Historiographical background / Metaphors and reality / Utility as the driving force / Expertise, careers, and Wanderlust / Concluding introductory remarks; Prologue / The colonial machine, 1789; Part I - The metropolitan wheels & gears of a colonial scientific bureaucracy: The sponsoring authorities / the royal navy-la marine royale / the Académie royal des sciences / The jardin du roi and metropolitian botancial gardens / The observatoire royal / The Académie royale de marine at Brest / The société royale de médecine / The Académie royale de chirurgie
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Frankreich
;
Kolonialismus
;
Imperialismus
;
Wissenschaft
;
Geschichte 1600-1800
Mehr zum Autor:
McClellan, James E. 1946-
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