Tanja Hammel
1) Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape
Author
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science
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