Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius

An analysis of the historical and scientific effects of technology transfer from an imperial to colonial setting.

List of contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Map of Mauritius

Introduction: Science, Canes, and Colonies
1. Constraints, Colonization, and Canes, 1500-1853
2. New Canes for a Dying Industry, 1853-1893
3. Canes in an Experiment Station, 1893-1913
4. The Department of Agriculture, 1913-1930
5. Small Planters and New Canes, 1913-1937
6. Sugar and the Making of a New State, 1937-1993
Conclusion: Creoles and Hybrids

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Authors: William K. Storey, William Kelleher Storey, William Kelleher (Royalty Account) Storey
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1997
• EAN: 9781580460156
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-015-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education