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Imperialism and Science
A unique resource that synthesizes existing primary and secondary sources to provide a fascinating introduction to the development and dissemination of science within history's great empires, as well as the complex interaction between imperialism and scientific progress over two centuries. Imperialism and Science is a scholarly yet accessible chronicle of the impact of imperialism on science over the past 200 years, from the effect of Catholicism on scientific progress in Latin America to the importance of U.S. government funding of scientific research to America's preeminent place in the world. Spanning two centuries of scientific advance throughout the age of empire, Imperialism and Science sheds new light on the spread of scientific thought throughout the former colonial world. Science made enormous advances during this period, often being associated with anti-Imperialist struggle or, as in the case of the science brought to 19th-century China and India by the British, with Western cultural hegemony.
O Marquês de Pombal e a Universidade, 2ª Edição
A ideia desta obra nasceu e amadureceu no ano em que se comemorou o tricentenário do nascimento de Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo. Apesar da abundante bibliografia consagrada ao pombalismo e à História da Universidade, e do reconhecido valor atribuído a trabalhos de referência obrigatória sobre ambas as temáticas, entendeu-se que não seria inútil uma compilação alargada de estudos sobre a esfera de atuação e o sentido da política cultural do ministro de D. José I no domínio do ensino superior. Sob diversos ângulos, as análises produzidas aspiram a uma compreensão mais sólida da função e do lugar que coube, de facto, à Universidade de Coimbra na modernização cultural do país, e da importância que a institucionalização do iluminismo revestiu no processo de secularização da sociedade e na consumação do “Absolutismo Esclarecido “ em Portugal. Excerto do prefácio de Ana Cristina Araújo.
Curiosité et cabinets de curiosités
Les cabinets de curiosités constituèrent, à partir du XVIe siècle, une réalité européenne. Pensés initialement comme des lieux où rassembler tout ce que la nature pouvait produire d'extraordinaire (qu'il s'agisse de productions humaines ou naturelles), ils juxtaposaient animaux rares naturalisés, fossiles divers, entassaient coquillages, pirogues indiennes, tableaux et médailles... Dès le XVIIe siècle ce type de collection commença cependant à reculer au profit de ce que seront, au siècle suivant, les cabinets d'histoire naturelle puis les premiers musées ; un processus de différenciation était engagé, qui allait de pair avec la séparation des savoirs, le désir de classer et de mieux connaître - un autre regard sur le monde. Mais de quelque modèle de cabinet qu'on parle, toujours s'impose la dimension idéologique du phénomène, et plus d'une fois ses enjeux strictement politiques. Ce sont ces diverses approches que la présente publication entend préciser en mettant l'accent sur quelques réalités particulières, qui mèneront le lecteur de Poitiers à Coimbra en passant par Saint-Pétersbourg, l'Italie et l'Angleterre
Blue Marble Health
Why do diseases of poverty afflict more people in wealthy countries than in the developing world? In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States’ economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at the poverty level currently suffer from at least one neglected tropical disease, or NTD. Hotez concluded that the world’s neglected diseases—which include tuberculosis, hookworm infection, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas d...
Crude Existence
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
