The colonial machine
Subtitle: French science and overseas expansion in the old regime
By: James E. McClellan III, François Regourd
Contributors: Regourd, François
Series: De diversis artibus -- t. 87 (n.s. 50); De diversis artibus -- t. 87.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9782503532608
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Science; History; Learned institutions and societies; Colonies; Economic conditions; Sciences; Histoire; Sociétés savantes et instituts; Conditions économiques; Economic history; French colonies; Naturwissenschaften; Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft; Kolonie; Kolonier; Historia; Ekonomiska aspekter; Vetenskapshistoria; Akademier
Description: Some of the contents: Introduction: The big-picture background to this study / Historiographical background / Metaphors and reality / Utility as the driving force / Expertise, careers, and Wanderlust / Concluding introductory remarks; Prologue / The colonial machine, 1789; Part I - The metropolitan wheels & gears of a colonial scientific bureaucracy: The sponsoring authorities / the royal navy-la marine royale / the Académie royal des sciences / The jardin du roi and metropolitian botanical gardens / The observatoire royal / The Académie royale de marine at Brest / The société royale de médecine / The Académie royale de chirurgie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-640) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The big-picture background to this study / Historiographical background / Metaphors and reality / Utility as the driving force / Expertise, careers, and Wanderlust / Concluding introductory remarks; Prologue / The colonial machine, 1789; Part I; title: The metropolitan wheels & gears of a colonial scientific bureaucracy: The sponsoring authorities / the royal navy-la marine royale / the Académie royal des sciences / The jardin du roi and metropolitian botancial gardens / The observatoire royal / The Académie royale de marine at Brest / The société royale de médecine / The Académie royale de chirurgie.