A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 /

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Author / Creator:	Dubow, Saul.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subject:	Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa. National characteristics, South African. Nationalism -- South Africa -- History. Power (Social sciences) -- South Africa -- History. Science -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History. Science -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- History. Intellectual life. National characteristics, South African. Nationalism. Politics and government. Power (Social sciences) Race relations. Science -- Political aspects. Science -- Social aspects. Whites -- Race identity. South Africa -- Race relations. South Africa -- Politics and government -- 19th century. South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century. South Africa -- Intellectual life. South Africa. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11151410

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ISBN:	9780191516344 0191516341 9781429459532 1429459530 9786610845255 6610845255 1280845252 9781280845253 0199296634 9780199296637
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowled.
Other form:	Print version: Dubow, Saul. Commonwealth of knowledge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199296634 9780199296637

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