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Author Hammel, Tanja, author.

Title Shaping natural history and settler society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the nineteenth-century Cape / Tanja Hammel.

Publication Info. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Contents 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. .
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Barber, Mary Elizabeth.
Natural history -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- South Africa -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872.
British colonies. (OCoLC)fst01910374
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope. (OCoLC)fst01213442
Chronological Term 1795-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Hammel, Tanja. Shaping natural history and settler society. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 9783030226381 (OCoLC)1111297380
ISBN 9783030226398 (electronic book)
3030226395 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-030-22639-8 doi
ISBN 9783030226381
3030226387
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