Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge

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Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel, Switzerland) Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Science, Africa and Europe

Processing Information and Creating Knowledge

Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel, Switzerland), Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Patrick Harries

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Routledge
25 October 2018

History: theory & methods; History of medicine; History of science

Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilisations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?

Edited by: Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel Switzerland), Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Patrick Harries
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780815378310
ISBN 10: 0815378319
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 25 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Lengwiler is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Nigel Penn is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Patrick Harries was Professor of African History at the University of Basel, Switzerland and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He died in 2016.