A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 Dubow Saul
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TextPublication details: Cape Town: Double Storey, 2006. Description: viii, 296 pages colour illustrations: 25 cmISBN: 9781770 13119DDC classification: 305.809068 DUBO
"In this book, Saul Dubow addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Hinged on the tension between the presumed universality of colonial knowledge and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines, Dubow looks at modern South African historiography and the significance of 'broad' South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index
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