A commonwealth of knowledge : science, sensibility, and white South Africa, 1820-2000 A commonwealth of knowledge
Dubow Saul
- Cape Town: Double Storey, 2006.
- viii, 296 pages colour illustrations: 25 cm
"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