Alchemy of Empire

Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism

Autor: Rajani Sudan
Editor: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823270705
eISBN Pdf: 9780823270705
eISBN Epub: 9780823270699
Lugar de publicación: New York , United States
Digital: 2016
Idioma: Ingles

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The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.

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