TY - JOUR
AU - Harrison, M
AB -  Science across the European Empires, 1800­1950. Edited by Benedikt Stuchtey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2005; pp. 376. £60). The historiography of science has evolved along rather different pathways than other sub-disciplines of history, but one of the notable exceptions is the relationship of science to European `expansion'--or more specifically to the establishment and consolidation of colonial rule. Studies of science and empire have tended to draw their key concepts and questions from theorists of imperialism and modernisation, rather than from within the domain of Science and Technology Studies. They have therefore been concerned more with the dynamics of imperialism than with the status of scientific knowledge and practice per se. Indeed, one of the central themes of the historiography over the last four decades has been the place of science in relationships between the imperial `metropole' and the colonial `periphery'. From George Basalla's seminal essay of 1967, through to the most recent works which have effectively `de-centred' the metropole, the overriding concerns of historians of science and empire have resembled those of other imperial historians. And the historiography evinces the same basic tensions, between those who assert the peculiarities of locality against broader theoretical generalisations. On the whole, the 
TI - Science across the European Empires, 1800–1950
JO - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/cem023
DA - 2007-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/science-across-the-european-empires-1800-1950-Hsc3jeKXRq
SP - 493
EP - 495
VL - CXXII
IS - 496
DP - DeepDyve
ER -