Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape

Shaping natural history and settler society Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape

“Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber’s work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race within the colonial context of the nineteenth-century Cape. This fascinating book is destined to become a landmark in the history of science in S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammel, Tanja. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2019
Cham : 2019.
Edition:First edition 2019.
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
Subjects:
Barber, Mary Elizabeth, > 1818-1899.
Natural history > South Africa > 19th century.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > History > 1795-1872.
Great Britain > Colonies > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > South Africa > Social life and customs > 19th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430464406719
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape
  • 2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts
  • 3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and Taxidermists
  • Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories
  • 4 Gender, Class and Competition
  • 5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection
  • 6 Barber’s Forging Scientific Practices and Theories
  • Part III: Negotiating Belonging through Science
  • 7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers’ Supremacy and Land Rights
  • 8 Barber’s World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality
  • 9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections
  • 10 ‘The fragments that are left behind’. .

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