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Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the B

Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical fig

Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of t

Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as W