Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel.
Hammel, Tanja, author.
2019
QH195.S6
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Title Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel.
Author Hammel, Tanja, author.
ISBN 9783030226398 (electronic book)
3030226395 (electronic book)
9783030226381
3030226387
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22639-8
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-22639-8 doi
Call Number QH195.S6
Dewey Decimal Classification 968.703092
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Available in Other Form Shaping natural history and settler society.
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1 Introduction
Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape
2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts
3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and Taxidermists
Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories
4 Gender, Class and Competition
5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection
6 Barbers Forging Scientific Practices and Theories
Part III: Negotiating Belonging through Science
7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers Supremacy and Land Rights
8 Barbers World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality
9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections
10 The fragments that are left behind.

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