Author: Karel Wessel GorkomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cinchona
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Handbook of Cinchona Culture
Author: Karel Wessel GorkomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cinchona
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Handbook of Cinchona Culture ...
Author: Karel Wessel Van GorkomThe Floracrats
Author: Andrew GossPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299248631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Situated along the line that divides the rich ecologies of Asia and Australia, the Indonesian archipelago is a hotbed for scientific exploration, and scientists from around the world have made key discoveries there. But why do the names of Indonesia’s own scientists rarely appear in the annals of scientific history? In The Floracrats Andrew Goss examines the professional lives of Indonesian naturalists and biologists, to show what happens to science when a powerful state becomes its greatest, and indeed only, patron. With only one purse to pay for research, Indonesia’s scientists followed a state agenda focused mainly on exploiting the country’s most valuable natural resources—above all its major export crops: quinine, sugar, coffee, tea, rubber, and indigo. The result was a class of botanic bureaucrats that Goss dubs the “floracrats.” Drawing on archives and oral histories, he shows how these scientists strove for the Enlightenment ideal of objective, universal, and useful knowledge, even as they betrayed that ideal by failing to share scientific knowledge with the general public. With each chapter, Goss details the phases of power and the personalities in Indonesia that have struggled with this dilemma, from the early colonial era, through independence, to the modern Indonesian state. Goss shows just how limiting dependence on an all-powerful state can be for a scientific community, no matter how idealistic its individual scientists may be.
Nature
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
CHAMBER'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
Author: Chambers' Encyclopædia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Bibliotheca Botanica
Author: Wesley, Wm. & SonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description