The colonial machine

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.

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,  Science, france,  France, colonies,  France, economic conditions

Places: France,  Frankreich

Times: 18th century,  18e siècle